breakfast – English noun declension

English noun forms of breakfast

Noun: breakfast
Singularbreakfast
Pluralbreakfasts

Sample Sentences

  • You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
  • I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
  • A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 125, column 2:]
  • His servant then flew like lightning and returned with a fine breakfast of wine and milk, and beautiful white bread and fruits, and such other things as little boys are fond of. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 293:]
  • Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia’s mother was not a humourist. [1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • We serve breakfast all day.
  • The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. [1684, John Dryden, “Amaryllis”, in Miscellany Poems:]

Etymology

From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of Old English fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”). See: Middle English Nouns 'brekefast', Old English Nouns 'fæstenbryċe', Dutch Nouns 'breekvasten'.

Verbs referencing "breakfast"

Irish Nouns bricfeasta, Dutch Nouns breekvasten, Zulu Nouns ibhulakufesi, Finnish Nouns breku.