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English
Etymology 1
From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.
Noun
bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
- A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
- Synonyms: (initialism) B&B; see also Thesaurus:lodging place
- Coordinate terms: pension, motel, hotel, inn; room and board
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
guesthouse providing breakfast
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: kambr-degemer f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 提供住宿與早餐的旅館/提供住宿与早餐的旅馆 (tígōng zhùsù yǔ zǎocān de lǚguǎn), 住宿加早餐酒店 (zhùsù jiā zǎocān jiǔdiàn), 民宿 (zh) (mínsù)
- Danish: bed and breakfast c
- Dutch: bed and breakfast (nl) c, logies en ontbijt n
- Estonian: öömaja hommikusöögiga, kodumajutus
- Finnish: aamiaismajoitus, bed and breakfast
- French: bed and breakfast (fr) m, bed-and-breakfast m, gîte touristique (fr) m, chambre d’hôte (fr) f, maison d’hôte (fr) f, chambre d’hôtes f, maison d’hôtes f, couette et café (fr) m (Quebec)
- German: Fremdenzimmer (de) n, Hotel garni (de) n, Bed and Breakfast (de) n
- Indonesian: kost (id), indekost
- Irish: leaba agus bricfeasta f
- Italian: bed and breakfast (it) m
- Japanese: ベッド・アンド・ブレックファスト (beddo ando burekkufasuto), 民宿 (ja) (みんしゅく, minshuku), 民泊 (ja) (みんぱく, minpaku)
- Korean: 베드 앤드 브렉퍼스트 (bedeu aendeu beurekpeoseuteu), 민박 (ko) (minbak), 민숙 (minsuk)
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: stee-en-stoetje n
- Malay: inap-sarapan
- Manx: bee as lhiabbee
- Norwegian: pensjonat (no) n
- Persian: تختخواب و صبحانه (taxtxâb o sobhâne), پانسیون (fa) (pânsiyyun)
- Polish: pokój ze śniadaniem m, pensjonat typu B&B m
- Portuguese: hospedagem domiciliar f
- Russian: not used in Russian, «бед энд бре́кфаст» (bɛd end brɛ́kfast) (transliteration), «крова́ть и за́втрак» («krovátʹ i závtrak») (literal translation)
- Spanish: bed and breakfast m
- Swedish: bed-and-breakfast n, rum och frukost (sv) c
- Turkish: pansiyon (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: gwely a brecwast m
- West Frisian: bed en brochje
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Etymology 2
From the notion that two shillings and six pence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.[1]
Noun
bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)
- (darts) A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
- Synonym: (initialism) B&B
1984, Ivan L. Brackin, William Fitzgerald, Darts, page 72:This can be a lengthy procedure when neither team can do better than ‘bed and breakfast’ (26).
(bingo) The number 26.