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bed-and-breakfast

bed-and-breakfast is the alternative form of bed and breakfast.

Verb

bed-and-breakfast (third-person singular simple present bed-and-breakfasts, present participle bed-and-breakfasting, simple past and past participle bed-and-breakfasted)

  1. (intransitive) To stay in a bed and breakfast.
    • We bed-and-breakfasted around Ireland and everywhere had placed before us great slashed loaves of soda bread made with coarse brown flour, buttermilk and bicarbonate of soda.2011, Pam Ayres, The Necessary Aptitude, page 360
  2. To engage in a bed-and-breakfast deal.
    • However, other assets (e.g. works of art) are still sometimes bed-and-breakfasted for tax purposes.2016, Jonathan Law, A Dictionary of Accounting

Meaning of bed and breakfast

Noun (1)

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

  1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

Noun (2)

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

  1. A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
    • The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d...[1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11
    Synonyms:
    B&B
  2. The number 26.
    • Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.[2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68

Forms of bed-and-breakfast

Noun
pluralbed-and-breakfasts
Verb
third-person singular presentbed-and-breakfasts
present participlebed-and-breakfasting
past participlebed-and-breakfasted
pastbed-and-breakfasted

Phrases with bed-and-breakfast

Questions about bed-and-breakfast

What does bed-and-breakfast mean?
Bed-and-breakfast means to stay in a bed and breakfast.
What is bed-and-breakfast the alternative form of?
Bed-and-breakfast is the alternative form of bed and breakfast.
What part of speech is bed-and-breakfast?
Bed-and-breakfast is a verb.
What is the past tense of bed-and-breakfast?
The past tense of bed-and-breakfast is bed-and-breakfasted.

Words near bed-and-breakfast in the dictionary

  1. bed wetters
  2. bed wrench
  3. bed wrenches
  4. bed's head
  5. bed's heads
  6. bed-and-breakfast
  7. bed-and-breakfast deal
  8. bed-and-breakfast deals
  9. bed-and-breakfast transaction
  10. bed-and-breakfast transactions
  11. bed-and-breakfasted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bed-and-breakfast (page history and authors); bed and breakfast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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