breakfast

Meanings

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast , likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, . Cognate with Dutch breekvasten.

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