continental breakfast
noun
often capitalized C
: a light breakfast (as of rolls or toast and coffee)
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There's a cozy fire pit in the garden, and continental breakfast can be delivered to your room daily.
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Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2025
The granola is heavy on hardened clusters, and the flavor evokes washing down a mini box of Cocoa Puffs with bad coffee at the hotel continental breakfast.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
Every stay comes with a complimentary European continental breakfast with pastries and yogurt parfaits.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2025
Guests of the three-bedroom space enjoy a daily continental breakfast and beer brewed by one of the owners, a 20-year home-brewing veteran.
—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2025
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Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2025
The granola is heavy on hardened clusters, and the flavor evokes washing down a mini box of Cocoa Puffs with bad coffee at the hotel continental breakfast.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025
Every stay comes with a complimentary European continental breakfast with pastries and yogurt parfaits.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2025
Guests of the three-bedroom space enjoy a daily continental breakfast and beer brewed by one of the owners, a 20-year home-brewing veteran.
—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Continental breakfast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/continental%20breakfast. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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