A continental breakfast is a light morning meal of bread, pastries and coffee. Take the continental breakfast.
It is named from the European mainland, where a cooked breakfast was never the custom. A continental breakfast in a hotel is usually cheaper and quicker than anything cooked.
1nouncontinental breakfastA light morning meal of bread, pastries and coffee.
“The continental breakfast was four rolls and a flask of coffee.”
continental breakfast is a meal.
Named for its being the ordinary breakfast of continental Europe rather than of Britain.
Named due to its popularity in continental Europe.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Hotel & Staying Away