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break-fast

break-fast is the alternative form of breakfast.

Meaning of breakfast

Noun

breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)

  1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
    • You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
  2. (broadly) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
    • We serve breakfast all day.
  3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
  4. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
    • The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.1684, John Dryden, “Amaryllis”, in Miscellany Poems

See all 6 meanings of breakfast

Forms of break-fast

pluralbreak-fasts

Questions about break-fast

What is break-fast the alternative form of?
Break-fast is the alternative form of breakfast.

Words near break-fast in the dictionary

  1. break-even point
  2. break-even points
  3. break-even time
  4. break-even times
  5. break-evens
  6. break-fast
  7. break-fasts
  8. break-in
  9. break-ins
  10. break-of-gauge station
  11. break-of-gauge stations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: break-fast (page history and authors); 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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