BREAKFAST TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breakfast time mean? 

• BREAKFAST TIME (noun)
  The noun BREAKFAST TIME has 1 sense:

1. the customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast

  Familiarity information: BREAKFAST TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKFAST TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The customary or habitual hour for eating breakfast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("breakfast time" is a kind of...):

mealtime (the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten)

 Context examples 

So Meg went down, wearing an injured look, and wasn't at all agreeable at breakfast time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As nothing could well be done before morning, and as it would be at least advisable to wait till Lord Godalming should hear from Mitchell's, we decided not to take any active step before breakfast time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In such circumstances, it was better for both that they should not be long together; and the restless state of Marianne's mind not only prevented her from remaining in the room a moment after she was dressed, but requiring at once solitude and continual change of place, made her wander about the house till breakfast time, avoiding the sight of every body.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)