This is the 281st most frequent Japanese word.
ご飯
Cooked rice; meal.
In this sentence, 'ご飯' (gohan) refers to breakfast, showing its usage to mean a specific meal of the day, combined with '朝' (asa) meaning morning.
朝ご飯を食べました。
I ate breakfast.
Here, 'ご飯' is used to mean dinner, when prefixed with '晩' (ban), illustrating its flexibility to represent different meals depending on the context or prefix.
晩ご飯はまだですか？
Is dinner ready yet?
In this context, 'ご飯' refers more specifically to 'rice,' emphasizing its literal meaning as cooked rice.