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# breakfast

noun (breakfast, breakfasts); verb (breakfast — rare)

«breakfast» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Breakfast is the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#m1)
2. To breakfast (old or formal) means to eat breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#m2)

### In the lessons

In health lessons breakfast gives your body and brain energy after the night, helping you concentrate at school; a healthy breakfast may have cereal, fruit, toast, eggs or yoghurt. Breakfasts differ around the world: a full English breakfast, pancakes in the USA, porridge, Vegemite on toast in Australia. Some schools run breakfast clubs. Phrases: have breakfast, eat breakfast, for breakfast, breakfast club, bed and breakfast.

### Examples

- What did you have for breakfast? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x1)
- I eat cereal and a banana for breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x2)
- Breakfast is the first meal of the day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x3)
- Don't skip breakfast; you'll be hungry at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x4)
- On Sundays we have pancakes for breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x5)
- The breakfast club opens at eight o'clock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x6)
- Grandpa made us breakfast in bed for Mum's birthday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x7)
- We stayed at a bed and breakfast by the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x8)
- ‘To fetch bread for my breakfast.’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#x9)

### Note

Usually no «a»: «have breakfast», «at breakfast», «for breakfast»; but «a big breakfast» with an adjective. It comes from «break» + «fast» (you stop not eating after the night), so it is said «BREK-fust». Meals of the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea or supper.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «breakfast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«breakfast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/breakfast.html) on Mova free.