break fast

See also: breakfast and break-fast

English

Noun

break fast (plural break fasts)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of breakfast (“meal eaten after fasting”).
   • 2000, Nina Beth Cardin, The Tapestry of Jewish Time: A Spiritual Guide to Holidays, →ISBN, page 71:

     That is why the break fast at the end of Yom Kippur often has an air of achievement.

Verb

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

Anagrams

• fast break, fastbreak