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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indefinite; indeterminate.

of or pertaining to the main trunk of the arterial system.

ahead of the times; advanced.

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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

In Taos, they used to shut down the chairlift for lunch and nobody cared.
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Some research suggests that processed foods, such as lunch meat, increases inflammation in the body and the brain.
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That’s a huge jump over the previous model, which usually tapped out some time after lunch.
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LeClair gave the example of a customer “on our app during a lunch break clicking on a bunch of pages.”
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He always does really well in this and we had to take him to lunch once before.
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I was lunching with an old friend at one of our favorite farm-to-table molecular gastronomy food trucks in Larchmont proper.
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Diplomacy traditionally has been the art of lunching with the right people at the right time.
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After lunching on a caprese salad sandwich, Lynch lit up an American Spirit cigarette and sat down to talk about his paintings.
David Lynch's Twisted Art|Peter Owen Nelson|September 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I'm lunching with Desmond, and then we're going furnishing together.
Married Life|May Edginton
Absolutely everybody seemed to be lunching at Kickshaw's yesterday!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919|Various
"I happened to be lunching here," Tabs commenced conventionally.
The Kingdom Round the Corner|Coningsby Dawson
They were all lunching gayly in the garden, around the table in the summer-house.
The Secret of the Night|Gaston Leroux
It was the time of the Assizes, and the Sheriff was lunching at our hotel.
Affinities and Other Stories|Mary Roberts Rinehard

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).

lunch

noun

verb (used without object)

verb (used with object)

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