lunch

[ luhnch ]

/ lʌntʃ /

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noun

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.

verb (used without object)

to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.

verb (used with object)

to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.

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Idioms for 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

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon

OTHER WORDS FROM lunch

luncher, nounlunchless, adjectivepre·lunch, adjective, noun

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Example sentences from the Web for lunch

This is why Web tools are valuable, as are lunches at taco stands.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story|Walter Isaacson|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was nothing to dwell on because there would be countless more brunches and breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
Michael Hastings' Hunger for Life|Jack Gray|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As opposed to, say, looking like every other lady who lunches from New England.
An Ode to the Trench Coat: The Burberry vs. The Lloyd Dobler|Sara Lieberman|April 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Students had to rely on the kindness of classmates, some of whom offered to share their lunches.
The Schools That Starve Students to Punish Deadbeat Parents|Brandy Zadrozny|January 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Adam Begley, who was books editor of the newspaper for twelve years, remembers their lunches.
Lunch with Peter Kaplan: Adam Begley Remembers|Adam Begley|December 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is usually furnished with numerous pockets, one of them being called the "poke-out pocket," in which he stows away his lunches.
Tramping with Tramps|Josiah Flynt
Yes, I still owe that considerable amount for lunches and dinners, but thats beside the mark.
Bliss, and Other Stories|Katherine Mansfield
Here every one lunches with a great deal of gesticulation and clamour.
In the Land of Mosques & Minarets|Francis Miltoun
Yet each day he became on more and more cordial terms with her, and the lunches became longer and more intimate.
Tutt and Mr. Tutt|Arthur Train
The sight of these lunches helped to undermine their faith in the truth of the official information they read in the newspapers.
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British Dictionary definitions for lunch

lunch

/ (lʌntʃ) /

noun

a meal eaten during the middle of the day

Caribbean (among older people) mid-afternoon tea

verb

(intr) to eat lunch

(tr) to provide or buy lunch for

Derived forms of lunch

luncher, noun

Word Origin for lunch

C16: probably short form of luncheon

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Idioms and Phrases with lunch

lunch

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

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