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breakfastmate

breakfastmate is the rare form of breakfast-mate.

Meaning of breakfast-mate

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

Forms of breakfastmate

pluralbreakfastmates

Questions about breakfastmate

What is breakfastmate the rare form of?
Breakfastmate is the rare form of breakfast-mate.

Words near breakfastmate in the dictionary

  1. breakfasting in bed
  2. breakfastings
  3. breakfastless
  4. breakfastlessness
  5. breakfastlike
  6. breakfastmate
  7. breakfastmates
  8. breakfasts
  9. breakfasts in bed
  10. breakfasts of champions
  11. breakfastwards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breakfastmate (page history and authors); breakfast-mate (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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