breakfast

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “His servant then flew like lightning and returned with a fine breakfast of wine and milk, and beautiful white bread and fruits, and such other things as little boys are fond of.”

   “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.”

2. (broadly, countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. (countable, uncountable)A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.

   “The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.”

verb

1. (intransitive)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.”

2. (transitive)To serve breakfast to.

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