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lunch

[ luhnch ]

noun

  1. a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
  2. any light meal or snack.
  3. a restaurant or lunchroom:

    Let's eat at the dairy lunch.



verb (used without object)

  1. to eat lunch:

    We lunched quite late today.

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide lunch for:

    They lunched us in regal fashion.

lunch

/ lʌntʃ /

noun

  1. a meal eaten during the middle of the day
  2. (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr to eat lunch
  2. tr to provide or buy lunch for
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈluncher, noun
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Other Words From

  • luncher noun
  • lunchless adjective
  • pre·lunch adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunch1

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunch1

C16: probably short form of luncheon
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. out to lunch, Slang. not paying attention or tending to business; negligent:

    You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.

More idioms and phrases containing lunch

see eat someone alive (someone's lunch) ; free lunch ; lose one's lunch ; out to (lunch) .
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Example Sentences

Yu acknowledged that there is a risk of a “backlog” in the kitchen if everyone wants their lunch at the same time, but he said KitchenMate tries to alleviate this issue by allowing people to pre-order their meals in the app.

The Rotisserie League was named after the restaurant where the founders often ate lunch.

Incarcerated military veterans enter the dining hall for lunch at the Cybulski Rehabilitation Center in Enfield, Connecticut.

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It’s kind of folklore and the sort of thing you learn over a lunch table discussion around the common room.

A 63-year-old woman and her family walked into a crowded restaurant for lunch, after returning from Wuhan the day before.

According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.

Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.

Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.

On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

I'm to be at his Universal bungalow at twelve-thirty for lunch, to meet him for the first time, going to see a man about a job.

HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.

I often recall the farewell lunch we had together at the Restaurant de Paris, in the Escolta.

He paid for the lunch, and tipped the waiters so liberally that they all hoped he would come again often.

I'd much rather see what is going on than be cooped up below, and after lunch I told Bob I was going up on deck.

At lunch he was the greatest possible fun, bubbling over with jokes and witty sallies.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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