n.
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
v., -fast·ed, -fast·ing, -fasts. v.intr.
To eat breakfast: We breakfasted on the terrace.
v.tr.
To provide breakfast for.
[Middle English brekfast : breken, to break; see break + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast).]
breakfaster break'fast·er n.
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