break fast
First meal daily
Break fast means to end a period of not eating—literally, to break one's fast.
The morning meal is called breakfast because it breaks the overnight fast.
The two-word form appears in religious contexts where fasting is deliberate: Muslims break fast at sunset during Ramadan.
Outside such contexts, the single word breakfast dominates.
- morningDay's early hours
- eatConsume for sustenance
- dawnDay's first glow
- early riserPerson who wakes at dawn
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
meal · hunger · rising · sunrise prayer · interruption · abstinence · ravenousness · first meal · coffee · eggs · cereal · IHOP · halt · toast · stack of pancakes · bread · cessation · bacon and eggs
- breakbreakaway, breakdown, breakout, breakthrough, breakup
- synagogue eventssynagogue service, temple service, minyan, Torah reading, kiddush
- High HolidaysRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, High Holy Days, shofar, machzor
- TishreiRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, High Holy Days, shofar
meal timing in daily sequence
break fastdinner
Primary evening meal
supper · evening meal · nightcap · midnight snack · lunch