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 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

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon

OTHER WORDS FROM lunch

luncher, nounlunchless, adjectivepre·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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This is why Web tools are valuable, as are lunches at taco stands.
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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
And the Department of Agriculture, which runs school lunches, has already made some changes the GAO report recommended.
Republicans for More Fat Kids|Michael Tomasky|May 28, 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
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 Betts
They 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 Betts
The poor fellows were able to stave off starvation by visiting various free lunches during the day.
The Iron Puddler|James J. Davis
Lunches 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 Mawson
Large 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

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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lunch

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

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