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BED AND BREAKFAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bed and breakfast mean? 

BED AND BREAKFAST (noun)
  The noun BED AND BREAKFAST has 1 sense:

1. an overnight boardinghouse with breakfastplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BED AND BREAKFAST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An overnight boardinghouse with breakfast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bed-and-breakfast; bed and breakfast

Hypernyms ("bed and breakfast" is a kind of...):

boarding house; boardinghouse (a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests)


 Context examples 


Of the meagreness of a child’s life? of fish diet and coarse living? of going out with the boats from the time I could crawl? of my brothers, who went away one by one to the deep-sea farming and never came back? of myself, unable to read or write, cabin-boy at the mature age of ten on the coastwise, old-country ships? of the rough fare and rougher usage, where kicks and blows were bed and breakfast and took the place of speech, and fear and hatred and pain were my only soul-experiences? I do not care to remember.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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