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déjeûner

See also: déjeuner, dêjeuner, and dejeuner

English

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Etymology

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From French déjeûner.

Noun

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déjeûner (countable and uncountable, plural déjeûners)

  1. Alternative form of déjeuner.
    • [1832], L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon, “The Talisman”, in Heath’s Book of Beauty. […], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […], →OCLC, page 74:
      Placed on a richly chased gold stand was a déjeûner of Sevre china, the cups painted with medallions of the beauties of Louis the Fourteenth’s reign.
    • 1855 October 13, “A Dash through the Vines”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. […], volume XII, number 290, London: Office, […], published 1856, page 241, column 1:
      Each of those oxen is allowed, I should think, a bottle of wine and bread-and-butter at discretion, at their déjeûner and dinner: how else should they be so fat and well-liking?
    • 1859, Thomas Forester, editor, Paris and Its Environs. An Illustrated Handbook., London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], page 368:
      Some persons have found it advantageous, when intending to prolong their stay, to take unfurnished apartments, and hire by the month or quarter from an upholsterer the furniture they require; this is perhaps the most economical plan, and where a cook is not kept, déjeûners and dinners may be ordered from a neighbouring restaurateur.
    • 1859, [Augustus Granville], The Mineral Springs of Vichy: A Sketch of Their Chemical and Physical Characters, and of Their Efficacy in the Treatment of Various Diseases. […], London: John Churchill, […], page 224:
      At all these Hotels, or nearly so, there is a table d’hôte at a stated hour for both the déjeûner and dinner, the other repasts being allowed in one’s own apartment.
    • 1859 December 10, “Cherbourg”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. […], volume II, number 33, London: […], published 1860, page 149, column 2:
      But, chiefly, he is delighted with the orchards which abound in Normandy, and sweeten the air with their healthy smell; for thousands of red apples are still on the trees, though thousands are lying in rich heaps underneath them, and though sixty wagons loaded with the same may be counted at the Bayeux railway station this fine October day. No wonder there is cider everywhere, universal as red wine in the south, and drunk at every table d’hôte both for déjeûner and dinner.
    • 1860, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “Belles and Blackcock; or, How a Little Candle on the Moors Lighted Dyneley to His Destiny”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XLVII, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 179:
      I am not a marrying man, and the great Emporium of good matches is of no use to me; so, after concerts and crushes, déjeûners and dinners, the coulisses and the Commons, I was thankful enough when, after having eaten my customary whitebait, I was free to turn my thoughts to the bracken and the mist, the corries and the glens of the dear far-away Western Highlands.
    • 1869 October 21, K., “French Peasant Life”, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume X, number 1464, London, page 11, column 1:
      At twelve we have déjeûner, consisting of boiled eggs or omelette, cutlets, and potatoes; […]
    • 1872, Mrs. A[lexander] S[mith] Orr [i.e., Mary Orr], “New Arrivals in Paris”, in The Twins of Saint-Marcel: A Tale of Paris Incendié, Edinburgh: William P[hilip] Nimmo, page 166:
      No news of Emile or Blanchard—our young men gone from us; Clémence gone; even the bonne absent; how solitary the house felt! for M. Brunel had shut himself into his apartments, only descending to join us at déjeûner and dinner, and when he went to receive his newspaper.
    • 1872, Alexander M[enzies] Brown, Wintering at Menton on the Riviera: A Compagnon de Voyage, with Hints to Invalids, London: J[ohn] and A[ugustus] Churchill, […], page 165:
      The formal hotel pension takes the place of the genial household, with its elaborate regulation dietary compressed in two meals, déjeûner and dinner, irrespective of individual necessities.
    • 1874, Charles Carroll Fulton, Europe Viewed through American Spectacles, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 153, column 1:
      Those who come to stay over a month or two invariably abandon the hotels and take to the boarding-houses, where they can live much more comfortably and fare better for half the expense. The charge at these houses ranges from eight to twelve francs per day, including finely-furnished chambers and the use of the parlors, pianos, etc., wine at déjeûner and dinner.
    • 1875, H[enry] Willis Baxley, Spain. Art-Remains and Art-Realities, Painters, Priests, and Princes. Being Notes of Things Seen, and of Opinions Formed, During Nearly Three Years’ Residence and Travels in That Country., volume I, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Co., pages 121–122:
      At home, and abroad; when they lie down, and before they rise; with chocolate, and at déjeûner, and dinner; on the street, and the Paseo; in the studio, bureau, counting-house, and café; on horseback, or in a carriage; whether idle or busy; it might—without being wide of the truth—be said, whether asleep or awake; tobacco smoke, duly mixed with the required proportion of phosphoretted and sulphuretted gases from matches, is the breath and being of Spanish life, of both sexes.
    • 1878, R[obert] L[ambert] Playfair, Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis: Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Carthage, etc., 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], pages 209–210:
      The charges at the Inns along the road are generally, bed 2 f. [francs], café au lait 1 f., déjeûner and dinner 3 to 4 f. each.
      The 1st edition (1874) uses déjeuner.
    • 1897, “Appendix. Hotel Accommodation Coupons.”, in Cook’s Tourists’ Handbook for Egypt, the Nile and the Desert, London: Thomas Cook & Son, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, page 20:
      (t.) 1 fr. [franc] on déjeûner and dinner coupons.
    • 1908, The Lady’s Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume XXIV, page 357, column 2:
      We arrived, in short, at the “Great White City,” as it is called; and when the expressions of her delight at the beauty of its cupolas and domes, its dazzling pinnacles and spires against the blue sky beyond, had subsided, my father suggested that, to begin with, as she was bent on British ways, she should come and lunch with us on the terrace of the Grand Restaurant. “Hors d’œuvres! But the menu is French! Oh, you English!” and Mademoiselle, as she plied her knife and fork vigorously in true French fashion, elbows in the air, gave us her mind volubly on the characteristics of our nation. “Humbugs” we were, treating her to an English lunch when here she was partaking of an excellent French déjeûner and dinner in one.
    • 1916, A[nna] M[arie] W[ilhelmina] Stirling, A Painter of Dreams and Other Biographical Studies, London: John Lane[,] The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, page 196:
      Daily, too, she would collect all the bits of bread left after déjeûner and dinner, and put these carefully in her bag, as she said she was often hungry in the night and it was a pity to waste them.
    • 1916, Herbert A[rthur] Stewart, From Mons to Loos: Being the Diary of a Supply Officer, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 12:
      For our meals we joined the French officers in the station buffet, where we were excellently fed for 5 francs, which included déjeûner and dinner.

Verb

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déjeûner (third-person singular simple present déjeûners, present participle déjeûnering, simple past and past participle déjeûnered)

  1. Alternative form of déjeuner.
    • 1867, “The French Almanacks for 1868. The Year of the Great Exposition.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LXII, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 608:
      The “Hôtel des Haricots,” so called because the recalcitrant members of the National Guard who were imprisoned there had to déjeûner and dine upon haricots, has been levelled to the ground, in imitation of the Bastille; […]
    • 1869 December 11, [Francis Cowley Burnand], “More Happy Thoughts”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume LVII, London: […] Bradbury, Evans, and Co., […], page 235, column 2:
      Now then coffee and cigar. This, I explain to Chilvern is the real delight of déjeûnering abroad in any café—you can always smoke immediately.
    • 1897 July 31, “There and Back with a Card”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ld., […], page 41, column 1:
      To culinary connoisseurs there are just two places on the Continong that may rival each other in a reputation for cuisine, […] Mr. Punch’s special traveller in the Déjeûnering business always likes to do a good turn to all who deserve to benefit by a brief holiday, […]
    • 1900, R[obert] S[tephenson] S[myth] Baden-Powell, The Matabele Campaign, 1896: Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, London: Methuen & Co. […], page 141:
      At Fontes Villa, a little town built on piles, at present the railway headquarters, we déjeûnered with the manager of the line in a beautifully green verandah.

French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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déjeûner

  1. Alternative form of déjeuner

Conjugation

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Conjugation of déjeûner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple déjeûner
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple déjeûnant
/de.ʒø.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle déjeûné
/de.ʒø.ne/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present déjeûne
/de.ʒøn/ 		déjeûnes
/de.ʒøn/ 		déjeûne
/de.ʒøn/ 		déjeûnons
/de.ʒø.nɔ̃/ 		déjeûnez
/de.ʒø.ne/ 		déjeûnent
/de.ʒøn/
imperfect déjeûnais
/de.ʒø.nɛ/ 		déjeûnais
/de.ʒø.nɛ/ 		déjeûnait
/de.ʒø.nɛ/ 		déjeûnions
/de.ʒø.njɔ̃/ 		déjeûniez
/de.ʒø.nje/ 		déjeûnaient
/de.ʒø.nɛ/
past historic2 déjeûnai
/de.ʒø.ne/ 		déjeûnas
/de.ʒø.na/ 		déjeûna
/de.ʒø.na/ 		déjeûnâmes
/de.ʒø.nam/ 		déjeûnâtes
/de.ʒø.nat/ 		déjeûnèrent
/de.ʒø.nɛʁ/
future déjeûnerai
/de.ʒøn.ʁe/ 		déjeûneras
/de.ʒøn.ʁa/ 		déjeûnera
/de.ʒøn.ʁa/ 		déjeûnerons
/de.ʒøn.ʁɔ̃/ 		déjeûnerez
/de.ʒøn.ʁe/ 		déjeûneront
/de.ʒøn.ʁɔ̃/
conditional déjeûnerais
/de.ʒøn.ʁɛ/ 		déjeûnerais
/de.ʒøn.ʁɛ/ 		déjeûnerait
/de.ʒøn.ʁɛ/ 		déjeûnerions
/de.ʒø.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		déjeûneriez
/de.ʒø.nə.ʁje/ 		déjeûneraient
/de.ʒøn.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present déjeûne
/de.ʒøn/ 		déjeûnes
/de.ʒøn/ 		déjeûne
/de.ʒøn/ 		déjeûnions
/de.ʒø.njɔ̃/ 		déjeûniez
/de.ʒø.nje/ 		déjeûnent
/de.ʒøn/
imperfect2 déjeûnasse
/de.ʒø.nas/ 		déjeûnasses
/de.ʒø.nas/ 		déjeûnât
/de.ʒø.na/ 		déjeûnassions
/de.ʒø.na.sjɔ̃/ 		déjeûnassiez
/de.ʒø.na.sje/ 		déjeûnassent
/de.ʒø.nas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — déjeûne
/de.ʒøn/ 		— déjeûnons
/de.ʒø.nɔ̃/ 		déjeûnez
/de.ʒø.ne/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Noun

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déjeûner m (plural déjeûners)

  1. Alternative form of déjeuner

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