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From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#BREAKFAST Category:English terms derived from Middle English#BREAKFAST brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break +‎ fastCategory:English compound terms#BREAKFAST (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English Category:English terms inherited from Old English#BREAKFAST Category:English terms derived from Old English#BREAKFAST fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

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The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
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- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 125, column 2:
  A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.
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- 1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
  Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia’s mother was not a humourist.
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(by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
We serve breakfast all day.Category:English terms with usage examples#BREAKFAST
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
(largely obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#BREAKFAST outside religion Category:en:Religion#BREAKFAST) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
- 1684, John Dryden, “Amaryllis”, in Miscellany Poems:
  The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
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In the sense "meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting", the word is more often spelled break-fast or break fast; it is also often pronounced differently.

→ Afrikaans: brekfis
→ Irish: bricfeasta
→ Manx: brishey trostey (calque)
→ Māori: parakuihi
Scottish Gaelic: → bracaist, → bris-thraisg (calque)
→ Portuguese: brequefeste, brequefesta
→ Welsh: brecwast

first meal of the day

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(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#BREAKFAST) To eat the morning meal.
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.
  First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 12:
  “Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted! […]”
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- 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:
  Fifty years ago, the traveller might breakfast well at home in London, and take nothing more than a cup of coffee at King's Cross.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BREAKFAST) To serve breakfast to.
- 1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady: A Tale of Ireland, page 269:
  By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea
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to eat the morning meal

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