breakfast, lunch, and dinner

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

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