Lunch Definition
lŭnch
lunched, lunches, lunching
noun
lunches
Any light meal; esp., the regular midday meal between breakfast and dinner.
Webster's New World
The food prepared for such a meal.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
(Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
Wiktionary
verb
lunched, lunches, lunching
To provide lunch for.
Webster's New World
To eat a midday meal.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- do lunch
- take a lunch break
- dine
- have lunch
idiom
out to lunch
- Not in touch with the real world; crazy.
American Heritage
out to lunch
- inattentive, distracted, etc.
- eccentric or insane
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Lunch
Origin of Lunch
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Recorded since 1580; presumably short for luncheon, apparently an alteration from nuncheon, nonechenche "light mid-day meal", itself from none "noon" (from Latin nonus) + schench "drink" (from Old English scenc, from scencan "pour out") and altered by northern English dialect lunch "hunk of bread or cheese" (1590), which probably is from Spanish lonja "a slice" (literally "loin")
From Wiktionary
Short for luncheon
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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