lunchroom

[luhnch-room, -roo m]

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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.

Origin of lunchroom

First recorded in 1815–25; lunch + room

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Related Words for lunchroom

bar, diner, joint, inn, outlet, saloon, cafeteria, bistro, lunchroom, booth, grill, hideaway, dive, canteen, chophouse, eatery, pizzeria, drive-in, tearoom, commissary

Examples from the Web for lunchroom

Contemporary Examples of lunchroom

Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon
Robert Sam Anson
March 1, 2014
Sometimes, the kids would make fun of Mrs. Johnston in the lunchroom, that she cried in class and everything.
Bullied to Death
Lucinda Franks
March 30, 2010

Historical Examples of lunchroom

Then I went into a lunchroom for ham and eggs and a huge cup of coffee.
The Harbor
Ernest Poole
The girls have taken great interest in their lunchroom cookery.
The Making of a Trade School
Mary Schenck Woolman
As I entered the lunchroom to-day the chairs were so placed that there was no room for me.
Crimes of Charity
Konrad Bercovici
The club was started as a lunchroom for American business women.
Ways of War and Peace
Delia Austrian
When the looms give up, send men and women to the lunchroom.
The Measure of a Man
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

British Dictionary definitions for lunchroom

lunchroom

noun

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

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