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# breakfast

«breakfast» in Mova's school dictionary: **the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Breakfast is the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#m1)

2) To breakfast (old or formal) means to eat breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/3/)
- [Breakfast-show presenters are paid professionals working from a running order and an earpiece; the friendly chat is planned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/9/)
- [Try Mia's family game: from breakfast to bedtime, count every time a machine guessed something for you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/1/)
- [Most language lives in ordinary days: breakfast, games, fights and homework, so your lessons had many of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/17/)
- [«The sign of “The Red Lion”» reminds him «that he had not breakfasted that day».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breakfast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breakfast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.