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The English breakfast was made popular by the architects of the British Empire.
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Vocabulary list

igirisu
noun
  1. United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain
  2. England
shiki
noun, noun, used as a suffix
  1. equation; formula; expression
  2. ceremony
  3. style
  4. enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
choushoku
noun
  1. breakfast
ha
particle
  1. topic marker particle (pronounced わ in modern Japanese)
  2. indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated)
  3. adds emphasis
igirisuteikoku
noun
  1. British Empire
igirisu
noun
  1. United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain
  2. England
teikoku
noun
  1. empire
no adjective
  1. imperial
no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
kensetsusha
noun
  1. architect
kensetsu
noun, suru verb
  1. construction; establishment
sha
suffix
  1. person; -er
noun
  1. expert; geisha; prostitute
tachi
suffix
  1. pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
niyotte
expression
  1. according to; by (means of); due to; because of
niyoru

te-form

niyotte
expression, godan verb
  1. by means of; due to; because of; according to
hayaru

Causative Plain Past Indicative Form

hayaraseta
godan verb, intransitive verb
  1. to be popular; to come into fashion
  2. to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to be endemic
  3. to flourish; to thrive
mono
noun
  1. thing; object; article; stuff; substance
  2. one's things; possessions; property; belongings (as 〜のもの, 〜のもん)
  3. things; something; anything; everything; nothing
  4. quality
  5. reason; the way of things
  6. used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen (formal noun often used as 〜ものだ)
noun, used as a suffix
  1. item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
  2. cause of ...; cause for ...
prefix
  1. somehow; somewhat; for some reason
  2. really; truly
da
copula
  1. be; is (plain copula)
auxiliary verb
  1. did; (have) done (た after certain verb forms; indicates past or completed action)
  2. please; do (indicates light imperative)

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