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lunch

[ luhnch ]

noun

  1. a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
  2. any light meal or snack.
  3. a restaurant or lunchroom:

    Let's eat at the dairy lunch.



verb (used without object)

  1. to eat lunch:

    We lunched quite late today.

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide lunch for:

    They lunched us in regal fashion.

lunch

/ ʌԳʃ /

noun

  1. a meal eaten during the middle of the day
  2. (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to eat lunch
  2. tr to provide or buy lunch for
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܲԳ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲԳİ noun
  • ܲԳl adjective
  • ·ܲԳ adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunch1

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunch1

C16: probably short form of luncheon
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. 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.

More idioms and phrases containing lunch

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

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The administration has used federal funding for once nonpartisan programs, such as school lunches and disaster relief, as a tool to threaten state officials who disagree with the president’s priorities.

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Prosecutors have dropped some of the charges against an Australian woman accused of killing three relatives and seriously injuring another with a toxic mushroom lunch.

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She continued to give evidence after a short break, but the jury were sent home for the day after lunch, with the judge telling them a "matter of law" had arisen.

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She bought her family a Valentine’s Day lunch at Sizzler, treating her mom to the buffet and her dad to his favorite steak and shrimp dish.

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A previous court hearing heard Harvey was stabbed twice in the chest while on a lunch break at the school.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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