breakfast time
Definition
- Noun:
- The customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast: The specific time of day when breakfast is typically consumed.
Usage
- This noun phrase refers to a period of the morning, not a duration. It indicates the usual time when the first meal of the day is eaten.
- It is commonly used to discuss schedules, routines, or to specify when an event occurs relative to the morning meal.
Examples
- Noun:
- Our meeting is scheduled for breakfast time, so coffee and pastries will be provided.
- At my grandmother's house, breakfast time is always at 7:30 AM sharp.
- The children are usually watching cartoons by breakfast time.
Advanced Usage
- "around breakfast time": approximately during the period when breakfast is eaten.
- The delivery usually arrives around breakfast time.
- "before/after breakfast time": specifying an event as occurring prior to or following the typical breakfast hour.
- He likes to go for a run before breakfast time.
Variants and Related Words
- Breakfast (n): the meal eaten in the morning.
- I have breakfast at seven.
- Breakfast (v): to eat breakfast.
- They breakfasted on toast and fruit.
Synonyms
- Morning mealtime: A more general phrase for the time when the morning meal is taken.
- The breakfast hour: A slightly more formal synonym.
Related Phrases
- Breakfast meeting: A meeting held during the typical breakfast period.
- We have a breakfast meeting with the clients tomorrow.
- Breakfast show: A television or radio program broadcast in the morning.
- I listen to the news on the breakfast show.
Noun
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the customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast
