bed and breakfast
bed and breakfast noun: a private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
Noun (1)
bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
- A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
- Synonyms:
- B&B, hotel, inn, lodging, lodging house
Noun (2)
bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
- 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
- This can be a lengthy procedure when neither team can do better than ‘bed and breakfast’ (26).1984, Ivan L. Brackin, William Fitzgerald, Darts, page 72
- Synonyms:
- B&B
- 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
bed and breakfast meaning in Malay, Indonesian and Persian
bed and breakfast in Malay
- guesthouse providing breakfast
- inap-sarapan
bed and breakfast in Indonesian
- guesthouse providing breakfast
- kost, indekost
bed and breakfast in Persian
- guesthouse providing breakfast
- تختخواب و صبحانه taxtxâb o sobhâne, پانسیون pânsiyyun
Synonyms of bed and breakfast
Forms of bed and breakfast
| plural | bed and breakfasts |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bed-and-breakfast |
| alternative form | bed & breakfast |
Origin of bed and breakfast
From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.
From the notion that two shillings and sixpence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.
Words formed from bed and breakfast
Questions about bed and breakfast
- What does bed and breakfast mean?
- Bed and breakfast means a private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
- What is bed and breakfast in Malay?
- Bed and breakfast in Malay is inap-sarapan. See Bed and breakfast meaning in Malay.
- What part of speech is bed and breakfast?
- Bed and breakfast is a noun.
- What is the plural of bed and breakfast?
- The plural of bed and breakfast is bed and breakfasts.
Words near bed and breakfast in the dictionary
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