lunch
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
any light meal or snack.
a restaurant or lunchroom: Let's eat at the dairy lunch.
to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.
to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.
Idioms about lunch
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.
Origin of lunch
1Other words from lunch
- luncher, noun
- lunchless, adjective
- pre·lunch, adjective, noun
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How to use lunch in a sentence
Office workers have pleasant picnic lunches on the empty roads.
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There was nothing to dwell on because there would be countless more brunches and breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
And the Department of Agriculture, which runs school lunches, has already made some changes the GAO report recommended.
As opposed to, say, looking like every other lady who lunches from New England.
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When the weather permitted, the girls ate their lunches on the curbs and on the stoops of houses in the immediate neighborhood.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsThey brought their own lunches and paid a small amount of dues, which were used to pay for tea served daily.
The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William BettsThe poor fellows were able to stave off starvation by visiting various free lunches during the day.
The Iron Puddler | James J. DavisLunches like these in wind and drift are uncomfortable enough for every one to be eager to start again as soon as possible.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonLarge lunches were always provided, in case of our getting becalmed, or stuck on the mud, both very frequent occurrences.
The Sportswoman's Library, v. 2 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for lunch
/ (lʌntʃ) /
a meal eaten during the middle of the day
Caribbean (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
(intr) to eat lunch
(tr) to provide or buy lunch for
Origin of lunch
1Derived forms of lunch
- luncher, noun
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
Other Idioms and Phrases with lunch
see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).
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