breakfast
/ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/ noun A1- The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. · You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.· I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
- A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc. · We serve breakfast all day.
- The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
Plural breakfasts
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Anne was dressed by the time Matthew had the fire on and had the breakfast ready when Marilla came down, but for her own part was much too excited to eat.
After breakfast the jaunty new cap and jacket were donned, and Anne hastened over the brook and up through the firs to Orchard Slope.
Sherlock Holmes had pushed away his untasted breakfast and lit the unsavoury pipe which was the companion of his deepest meditations.
He leaned upon his hand, with his untasted breakfast before him, and he stared at the slip of paper which he had just drawn from its envelope.
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