lunch

American  

[luhnch] / lʌntʃ /

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.

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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.

idioms

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

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

lunch British  

/ lʌntʃ /

noun

1. a meal eaten during the middle of the day

2. (among older people) mid-afternoon tea

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verb

1. (intr) to eat lunch

2. (tr) to provide or buy lunch for

lunch More Idioms  

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

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Other Word Forms

• luncher noun
• lunchless adjective
• prelunch adjective

Etymology

Origin of lunch

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon

Example Sentences

Officials said they found classified information in a lunch box while searching Perez-Lugones' car, according to court filings.

From BBC

“There is no free lunch here,” argues Adam Levitin, a credit market expert at Georgetown law school.

From Los Angeles Times

Another user, John Yaya, wrote that he knew a deputy back in the 1980s who packed his own lunch and didn’t eat at local venues because of safety issues.

From Los Angeles Times

“The movie people think about what the actors are going to wear, of course, but the composer — who cares?” he said last week over lunch in Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times

Ironworks has two restaurants on the property: Provision, where you can enjoy steaks and seafood, soups, and salads for dinner, and Rize, a breakfast/lunch restaurant on the main floor with all the classics.

From Salon