breakfast

«breakfast» in Mova's school dictionary: the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (breakfast, breakfasts); verb (breakfast — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) Breakfast is the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning. tree →

2) To breakfast (old or formal) means to eat breakfast. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health lessons breakfast gives your body and brain energy after the night, helping you concentrate at school; a healthy breakfast may have cereal, fruit, toast, eggs or yoghurt. Breakfasts differ around the world: a full English breakfast, pancakes in the USA, porridge, Vegemite on toast in Australia. Some schools run breakfast clubs. Phrases: have breakfast, eat breakfast, for breakfast, breakfast club, bed and breakfast.

examples

• What did you have for breakfast? tree →
• I eat cereal and a banana for breakfast. tree →
• Breakfast is the first meal of the day. tree →
• Don't skip breakfast; you'll be hungry at school. tree →
• On Sundays we have pancakes for breakfast. tree →
• The breakfast club opens at eight o'clock. tree →
• Grandpa made us breakfast in bed for Mum's birthday. tree →
• We stayed at a bed and breakfast by the sea. tree →
• ‘To fetch bread for my breakfast.’ tree →

note

Usually no «a»: «have breakfast», «at breakfast», «for breakfast»; but «a big breakfast» with an adjective. It comes from «break» + «fast» (you stop not eating after the night), so it is said «BREK-fust». Meals of the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea or supper.

In the corpora

• Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.
• Breakfast-show presenters are paid professionals working from a running order and an earpiece; the friendly chat is planned.
• Try Mia's family game: from breakfast to bedtime, count every time a machine guessed something for you.
• Most language lives in ordinary days: breakfast, games, fights and homework, so your lessons had many of them.
• «The sign of “The Red Lion”» reminds him «that he had not breakfasted that day».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «breakfast» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.