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breakfast

US /ˈbrɛkfəst/

noun Core · B1 Ăn uống

Definition

the first meal of the day (usually in the morning)

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

The hotel serves a free breakfast from six to ten every day.

Collocations

  • Easy cook breakfast for family
    to cook breakfast for family, meaning to prepare a hot meal
  • Medium complimentary buffet breakfast
    describing complimentary buffet breakfast (conveying or resembling a compliment)
  • Hard host a business breakfast meeting
    to host a business breakfast meeting, meaning to be the host of or for
  • Very Hard make a dog's breakfast of the job
    to create, produce, or cause regarding a dog's breakfast of the job

Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.