lunchroom

[ luhnch-room, -room ]

/ ˈlʌntʃˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

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noun

a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.

a luncheonette.

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Origin of lunchroom

First recorded in 1815–25; lunch + room

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How to use lunchroom in a sentence

That is, the school houses three cafeterias, which caused students to sort themselves into the “appropriate” lunchroom based on social cliques.
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For example, after learning about oil and plastic pollution at an AJR concert, a young high school girl in Indianapolis started a campaign to end all single-use plastic in her school’s lunchroom.
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The lunchroom, not to mention the coffee, was a hit, but the idea of “automating” came a little later, in 1902.
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Free food for kids, a practice that extended the lunchroom into homes during the pandemic and could fight child hunger long term.
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When kids do need to go indoors, she adds, the school has converted one big room into a giant lunchroom where everyone can eat six feet apart.
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Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”
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Sometimes, the kids would make fun of Mrs. Johnston in the lunchroom, that she cried in class and everything.
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He waited until Graham had joined the office force in the mill lunchroom, and invented an errand back to Graham's office.
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Then he shook himself and ran lightly to a little lunchroom on Amsterdam Avenue, where he enjoyed doughnuts and iced tea.
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I told you about the little lunchroom where the readers from the library get their noonday feed.
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They left the base lunchroom in silence, Bridget pouting a lip-edge more than Grant.
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I can't remember who ate in the lunchroom, I mean the domino room, with me.
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British Dictionary definitions for lunchroom

lunchroom

/ (ˈlʌntʃˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /

noun

US and Canadian a room where lunch is served or where students, employees, etc, may eat lunches they bring

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