breakfast | meaning of breakfast in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE
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breakfast
verb
[
intransitive
]
COLLOCATIONS
verbs
have/eat breakfast
Paul got up, washed and had breakfast.
have something for breakfast
What do you usually have for breakfast?
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + breakfast
a big breakfast
Most people don’t eat a big breakfast nowadays.
a good/proper breakfast
(=
big and healthy
)
I think kids need a good breakfast before they go to school.
a hearty breakfast
written
(=
big
)
The price includes a hearty breakfast.
a small/light breakfast
She ate a light breakfast of toast and coffee.
an English/a full breakfast
(=
a big breakfast with bacon, egg, toast etc – used especially in hotels
)
A lot of people like to have an English breakfast on holiday.
a cooked/fried breakfast
(=
bacon, egg, toast etc
)
Do you feel like having a cooked breakfast?
a buffet breakfast
(=
one in a hotel, where you serve yourself
)
A buffet breakfast is served in the hotel’s elegant dining room.
a continental breakfast
(=
coffee and bread with butter and jam
)
Continental breakfast can be served in your room.
a quick/hasty/hurried breakfast
I grabbed a quick breakfast and ran to the bus stop.
a long/leisurely breakfast
(=
not hurried
)
On Sunday mornings I like to have a leisurely breakfast.
an early/late breakfast
We had an early breakfast and left before 7.30.
a working breakfast
(=
at which you talk about business
)
She suggested we meet at 8.30 for a working breakfast.
breakfast + NOUN
the breakfast dishes
Did you put the breakfast dishes in the dishwasher?
the breakfast things
(=
dishes, packets etc
)
Dad was clearing the breakfast things away.
a breakfast table/room
The house has a large kitchen and a breakfast room.
breakfast cereal
Many breakfast cereals are high in sugar.
breakfast time
I don’t like talking at breakfast time.
breakfast television/TV
(=
programmes on television in the early morning
)
The children all eat their cereal in front of breakfast television.
