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breakfast
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[ noun ] (food) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning)
Synonyms Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)He rose late and went_down in his bathrobe and slippers to have breakfast either alone or with Rachel . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)He and Irvin_Moll were sipping coffee at the breakfast bar . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)In their search for what turned_out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver , they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking_up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffee-cup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Planes made her feel faint , and in Tokyo , where she had gone that summer , she had been given raw fish for breakfast and so she had come straight home . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (food) eat an early morning meal
Examples "We breakfast at seven" Used in print (Idwal Jones, "Santa Cruz Run"...)My friend often breakfasted with Vernon on the morning of the regular tallyho run . (Richard Tiernan, "Land of the Silver Dollar,"...)He ate breakfast in a sullen mood , but afterwards , when he walked out onto Virginia_Street , he felt braced . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (food) provide breakfast for
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