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BREAKFAST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first meal of the day (usually in the morning)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("breakfast" is a kind of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breakfast"):

continental breakfast; petit dejeuner (a breakfast that usually includes a roll and coffee or tea)

power breakfast (a meeting of influential people to conduct business while eating breakfast)

Derivation:

breakfast (eat an early morning meal)

breakfast (provide breakfast for)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat an early morning meal

Example:

We breakfast at seven

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "breakfast" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue breakfast

Derivation:

breakfast (the first meal of the day (usually in the morning))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide breakfast for

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "breakfast" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

breakfast (the first meal of the day (usually in the morning))

Credits

 Context examples: 

To be done after eating breakfast.

(After Breakfast, NCI Thesaurus)

"Super-Puffs" may sound like a new breakfast cereal.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The high-fibre bread analysed during the study is especially suitable for breakfast.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

To be done between breakfast and lunch.

(Between Breakfast and Lunch, NCI Thesaurus)

We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; but I was unable to contain myself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Well, then, I had finished my toilet in an hour or so—for I was less exigeant in those days than now—and I met Sir Lothian Hume at breakfast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think after breakfast we must make a little reconnaissance of Mrs. Warren’s neighbourhood.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hawkins hasn't had his breakfast. Hawkins, help yourself, and back to your post to eat it,” continued Captain Smollett.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)