continental breakfast

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   a breakfast that usually includes a roll and coffee or tea

   Synonymspetit dejeuner

   Broaderbreakfast

Questions about continental breakfast

What does continental breakfast mean?

continental breakfast means "a breakfast that usually includes a roll and coffee or tea".

What is another word for continental breakfast?

Close synonyms include petit dejeuner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is continental breakfast a common word?

continental breakfast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.