Definition of Breakfast

Breakfast

The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.

A meal after fasting, or food in general.

To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.

To furnish with breakfast.

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Breakfast Quotations

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
Steven Wright

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Bob Dylan

I must have a drink of breakfast.
W. C. Fields

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
John Steinbeck

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
William Tecumseh Sherman

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Tecumseh Sherman

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
Demetri Martin

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
Hilaire Belloc

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Elizabeth II

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
Hedy Lamarr

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Ken Blanchard

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
James McAvoy

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
Patty Duke

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
Dean Koontz

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
Julia Roberts

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
Liam Neeson

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
Moon Unit Zappa

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.
Minnie Pearl

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
Dan O'Brien

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Breakfast Translations

breakfast in Afrikaans is ontbyt
breakfast in Danish is morgenmad
breakfast in Dutch is ontbijt
breakfast in Hungarian is reggeli
breakfast in Italian is colazione
breakfast in Latin is ientaculum
breakfast in Norwegian is frokost
breakfast in Spanish is desayuno
breakfast in Swedish is frukost

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