"bed and breakfast" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bed and breakfasts [plural]
Etymology: From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bed|breakfast}} bed + breakfast Head templates: {{en-noun}} bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
  1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals. Categories (topical): Hotels Synonyms: B&B [initialism], lodging place, bed-and-breakfast, bed & breakfast Derived forms: bed-and-breakfast deal, bed-and-breakfasting, bed-and-breakfast transaction Translations (guesthouse providing breakfast): kambr-degemer [feminine] (Breton), 提供住宿與早餐的旅館 (Chinese Mandarin), 提供住宿与早餐的旅馆 (tígōng zhùsù yǔ zǎocān de lǚguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 住宿加早餐酒店 (zhùsù jiā zǎocān jiǔdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 民宿 (mínsù) (Chinese Mandarin), bed and breakfast [common-gender] (Danish), bed and breakfast [common-gender] (Dutch), logies en ontbijt [neuter] (Dutch), stee-en-stoetje [neuter] (Dutch Low Saxon), öömaja hommikusöögiga (Estonian), kodumajutus (Estonian), aamiaismajoitus (Finnish), bed and breakfast (Finnish), bed and breakfast [masculine] (French), bed-and-breakfast [masculine] (French), gîte touristique [masculine] (French), chambre d’hôte [feminine] (French), maison d’hôte [feminine] (French), chambre d’hôtes [feminine] (French), maison d’hôtes [feminine] (French), couette et café [Quebec, masculine] (French), Fremdenzimmer [neuter] (German), Hotel garni [neuter] (German), Bed and Breakfast [neuter] (German), kost (Indonesian), indekost (Indonesian), leaba agus bricfeasta [feminine] (Irish), bed and breakfast [masculine] (Italian), ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト (beddo ando burekkufasuto) (Japanese), 民宿 (minshuku) (alt: みんしゅく) (Japanese), 民泊 (minpaku) (alt: みんぱく) (Japanese), 베드 앤드 브렉퍼스트 (bedeu aendeu beurekpeoseuteu) (Korean), 민박 (minbak) (Korean), 민숙 (minsuk) (Korean), inap-sarapan (Malay), bee as lhiabbee (Manx), pensjonat [neuter] (Norwegian), تختخواب و صبحانه (taxtxâb o sobhâne) (Persian), پانسیون (pânsiyyun) (Persian), pokój ze śniadaniem [masculine] (Polish), pensjonat typu B&B [masculine] (Polish), hospedagem domiciliar [feminine] (Portuguese), «бед энд бре́кфаст» (bɛd end brɛ́kfast) [transliteration] (Russian), bed and breakfast [masculine] (Spanish), bed-and-breakfast [neuter] (Swedish), rum och frukost [common-gender] (Swedish), pansiyon (Turkish), gwely a brecwast [masculine] (Welsh), bed en brochje (West Frisian)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: bed and breakfasts [plural]
Etymology: From the notion that two shillings and six pence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn. Head templates: {{en-noun}} bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
  1. (darts) A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order. Categories (topical): Darts Synonyms: B&B [initialism]
    Sense id: en-bed_and_breakfast-en-noun-yLqs0W9j Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 47 38 15 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 49 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 42 51 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 48 4 Topics: darts, games
  2. (bingo) The number 26. Categories (topical): Bingo
    Sense id: en-bed_and_breakfast-en-noun-xd1G1t29 Categories (other): English coordinated pairs Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 47 38 15 Topics: bingo, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "cmn",
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "word": "gîte touristique"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "tags": [
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "couette et café"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "Hotel garni"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "word": "kost"
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "indekost"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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        {
          "alt": "みんしゅく",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "minshuku",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "民宿"
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          "alt": "みんぱく",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "minpaku",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "bedeu aendeu beurekpeoseuteu",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "베드 앤드 브렉퍼스트"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "minbak",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "민박"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "minsuk",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "inap-sarapan"
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "bee as lhiabbee"
        },
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "pensjonat"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "taxtxâb o sobhâne",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "تختخواب و صبحانه"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "pânsiyyun",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "word": "پانسیون"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pokój ze śniadaniem"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pensjonat typu B&B"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hospedagem domiciliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "not used in Russian",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bɛd end brɛ́kfast",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
          "tags": [
            "transliteration"
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          "word": "«бед энд бре́кфаст»"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "«крова́ть и за́втрак» («krovátʹ i závtrak») (literal translation)",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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          "word": "pansiyon"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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      "roman": "bedeu aendeu beurekpeoseuteu",
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      "code": "ko",
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "word": "민박"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "word": "민숙"
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      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "word": "bee as lhiabbee"
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "taxtxâb o sobhâne",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "word": "تختخواب و صبحانه"
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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "pânsiyyun",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "word": "پانسیون"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "pokój ze śniadaniem"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "hospedagem domiciliar"
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      "note": "not used in Russian",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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        "transliteration"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "«крова́ть и за́втрак» («krovátʹ i závtrak») (literal translation)",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "word": "pansiyon"
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "guesthouse providing breakfast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "lang": "West Frisian",
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        {
          "ref": "[1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11:",
          "text": "The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Ivan L. Brackin, William Fitzgerald, Darts, page 72:",
          "text": "This can be a lengthy procedure when neither team can do better than ‘bed and breakfast’ (26).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order."
      ],
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        [
          "darts",
          "darts"
        ],
        [
          "score",
          "score"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(darts) A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "initialism"
          ],
          "word": "B&B"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "darts",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Bingo"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68:",
          "text": "Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number 26."
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          "bingo",
          "bingo"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bingo) The number 26."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "bingo",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bed-and-breakfast"
    },
    {
      "word": "bed & breakfast"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Green's Dictionary of Slang"
  ],
  "word": "bed and breakfast"
}

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