lunchroom

[ luhnch-room, -room ]

noun

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

lunchroom

/ ˈlʌntʃˌruːm; -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a room where lunch is served or where students, employees, etc, may eat lunches they bring

Word History and Origins

Origin of lunchroom¹

First recorded in 1815–25; lunch + room

Example Sentences

That is, the school houses three cafeterias, which caused students to sort themselves into the “appropriate” lunchroom based on social cliques.

From Science News

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.

From Time

The lunchroom, not to mention the coffee, was a hit, but the idea of “automating” came a little later, in 1902.

From Time

Free food for kids, a practice that extended the lunchroom into homes during the pandemic and could fight child hunger long term.

From Ozy

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.

From Science News For Students

Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”

From The Daily Beast

Sometimes, the kids would make fun of Mrs. Johnston in the lunchroom, that she cried in class and everything.

From The Daily Beast

He waited until Graham had joined the office force in the mill lunchroom, and invented an errand back to Graham's office.

From Project Gutenberg

Then he shook himself and ran lightly to a little lunchroom on Amsterdam Avenue, where he enjoyed doughnuts and iced tea.

From Project Gutenberg

I told you about the little lunchroom where the readers from the library get their noonday feed.

From Project Gutenberg

They left the base lunchroom in silence, Bridget pouting a lip-edge more than Grant.

From Project Gutenberg

I can't remember who ate in the lunchroom, I mean the domino room, with me.

From Project Gutenberg

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