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breakfast

noun
/ˈbɹɛk.fəst//ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/US/ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/UK

Etymology

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

  1. inherited from fæstenbryċe
  2. inherited from brekefast

Definitions

  1. 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 ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.

  2. A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include…

    A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.

    • We serve breakfast all day.

  3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities…

    The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.

      • The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

    2. To eat the morning meal.

      • May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
      • “Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]”
      • 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.

    3. To serve breakfast to.

      • By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at breakfast. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at breakfast. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at breakfast

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA