breakfast

breakfast
n.

1) to eat, have breakfast

2) to make, prepare breakfast

3) a continental; full; hurried; nutritious, wholesome; substantial breakfast

4) at breakfast (what did you discuss at breakfast?)

5) for breakfast (to eat eggs for breakfast)

6) (misc.) to have breakfast in bed; bed and breakfast (as in a tourist home)

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['brekfəst]
have breakfast
hurried
nutritious
prepare breakfast
substantial breakfast
wholesome
bed and breakfast (as in a tourist home)
(misc.) to have breakfast in bed
a continental
to eat
to make
for breakfast (to eat eggs for breakfast)
at breakfast (what did you discuss at breakfast?)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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