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BREKF-uh-st/ˈbrekfəst/

Breakfast is the first meal of the day. English names meals clearly: breakfast, lunch, dinner. You have breakfast or eat breakfast. “Break-fast” historically meant ending the night without food — you do not need that to use the word, but it explains the spelling.

Meaning

The first meal of the day.

Examples

• “I eat breakfast at seven.”
• “What do you eat for breakfast?”
• “Breakfast is ready.”

Good to know

have breakfast (not usually “take breakfast” in modern English).

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