Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. a light breakfast, often as served in a hotel, usually consisting of cereal, juice, and pastries, but without any fried items.
WordNet
n. breakfast usually including a roll and coffee or tea [syn: petit dejeuner]
Usage examples of "continental breakfast".
He stays at a small private inn up on the top of the island, eating continental breakfast every morning with an assortment of American and Nipponese war veterans who have come here with their wives to (Randy supposes) deal with emotional issues a million times more profound than anything Randy's ever had to contend with.
An innocent Milanese traveling salesman, taking only a continental breakfast of buttered panino, marmellata and coffee, found himself with a lap full of hot salsiccia and scrambled eggs.
While, his head below the level of the sill, he ate a spare continental breakfast, he heard the chatter of the girls assembling outside on the terrace.
The hotel had a continental breakfast buffet with cereal and fruit in the dining room, and my mother was already there.
Ferdy, who was partaking of a continental breakfast in bed, made no attempt to defend himself, but uttered a few soothing noises, and said it had all been Gil’.
Now, that fridge is called a mini-bar, and here's what you use it for: In the morning, when they wheel in the continental breakfast, they bring a pitcher of hot milk for some strange reason and you just take that pitcher and stick it in the mini-bar so later you can have a glass of milk.
The continental breakfast was at the door by the time Susan was dressed.
He didn't care about a swimming pool or a king-size bed, or a free continental breakfast.
Faye provided the motel's guests with a free continental breakfast in their rooms, so it was not necessary to open the diner before noon.