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breakfast
What does breakfast mean?
breakfast (noun): the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce breakfast?
/ˈbɹɛkfəst/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does breakfast come from?
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").
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “breakfast” mean?
the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning
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a written message addressed to a person or organization
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a path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc
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a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
Not quite: that's what course means.
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