breakfasting
breakfasting is the present participle and gerund of breakfast.
Meaning of breakfast
Verb
breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)
- To eat the morning meal.
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
- To serve breakfast to.
- By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady: A Tale of Ireland, page 269
Noun
breakfasting (plural breakfastings)
- The act of eating breakfast.
- At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.1853, Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world, page 372
Forms of breakfasting
| plural | breakfastings |
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Phrases with breakfasting
Questions about breakfasting
- What does breakfasting mean?
- Breakfasting means the act of eating breakfast.
- What is breakfasting the present participle and gerund of?
- Breakfasting is the present participle and gerund of breakfast.
- What part of speech is breakfasting?
- Breakfasting is a noun.
- What is the plural of breakfasting?
- The plural of breakfasting is breakfastings.
Words near breakfasting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: breakfasting (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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