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breakfast-mate

breakfast-mate noun: someone with whom one eats breakfast.

Noun

breakfast-mate (plural breakfast-mates)

  1. Someone with whom one eats breakfast.
    • CIA Director George Tenet was eating breakfast at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington that morning. When he heard about the first plane, he immediately asked, “Was it an attack? It sounds like an attack,” and then told his breakfast-mate, “This is bin Laden. His fingerprints are all over it.”2005, Al Franken, The Truth (with Jokes), New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 36
    • Elijah tore off a mouthful of toast, put the rest down, and looked at his breakfast-mates.2008, Mark J. Soppet, “One Last Haul”, in Eric T. Reynolds, editor, Return to Luna: The Winning Stories of the National Space Society’s 2008 Return to Luna Contest, Overland Park, Kan.: Hadley Rille...

Forms of breakfast-mate

pluralbreakfast-mates
alternative formbreakfast mate
alternative formbreakfastmate

Origin of breakfast-mate

From breakfast + -mate.

Questions about breakfast-mate

What does breakfast-mate mean?
Breakfast-mate means someone with whom one eats breakfast.
What part of speech is breakfast-mate?
Breakfast-mate is a noun.
What is the plural of breakfast-mate?
The plural of breakfast-mate is breakfast-mates.

Words near breakfast-mate in the dictionary

  1. breakfast wrap
  2. breakfast wraps
  3. breakfast, lunch and dinner
  4. breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  5. breakfast-equipage
  6. breakfast-mate
  7. breakfast-mates
  8. breakfast-time
  9. breakfast-times
  10. breakfastcup
  11. breakfastcupful

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