| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | break·fast |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br k f st |
| NOUN: | The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: break·fast·ed, break·fast·ing, break·fasts
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To eat breakfast: We breakfasted on the terrace. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To provide breakfast for. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English brekfast : breken, to break; see break + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast; see past- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | breakfast·er —NOUN
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