Breakfastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

break fast (third-person singular simple present breaks fast, present participle breaking fast, simple past broke fast, past participle broken fast)

1. Alternative form of break one's fast
2. (archaic) Alternative form of breakfast

アナグラム

• fast break, fastbreak

語源

From 中期英語 brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break +‎ fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast"), likely a variant of 古期英語 fæstenbryċe, (literally, "fast-breach"). Cognate with Dutch breekvasten (“breakfast”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɹɛk.fəst/
• (meal eaten after religious fasting, also): (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbɹeɪkˌfæst/, (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbreɪkˌfɑːst/
• (Indic) IPA: /brek.fɑsʈ/, /ˈbrekfəsʈ/, /ˈbrɛkfəsʈ/

名詞

breakfast (countable and uncountable, plural breakfasts)

1. The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

   You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.

   • 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:

     A ſorry Breakfaſt for my Lord Protector.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.

   We serve breakfast all day.

3. The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
4. (largely obsolete outside religion) A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
   • 1684, John Dryden, “Amaryllis”, in Miscellany Poems:

     The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

使用する際の注意点

• In the sense "meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting", the word is more often spelled break-fast or break fast; it is also often pronounced differently.

派生語

派生した語

参考

• brunch
• jentacular

動詞

breakfast (third-person singular simple present breakfasts, present participle breakfasting, simple past and past participle breakfasted)

1. (intransitive) To eat the morning meal.
   • May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq.

     First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 12:

     “Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted! […]”

   • 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:

     Fifty years ago, the traveller might breakfast well at home in London, and take nothing more than a cup of coffee at King's Cross.

2. (transitive) To serve breakfast to.
   • 1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady: A Tale of Ireland, page 269:

     By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea

同意語

• break one's fast

アナグラム

• fast break, fastbreak