lunch
lunch (lunc̸h)
noun
- any light meal; esp., the regular midday meal between breakfast and dinner
- the food prepared for such a meal
Etymology: earlier, a piece, thick piece < ?: first appears as rendering of Sp lonja, slice of ham, which it formerly paralleled in pronun.
intransitive verb
to eat lunch
transitive verb
to provide lunch for
out to lunch
Slang- inattentive, distracted, etc.
- eccentric or insane
lunch
n.
Converse of object
- eat: The PTA offered to hire a hall in town for students to eat lunch.
- cook: Hours were very long and the principle of a communal cooked lunch arose at this time because members just went home to sleep.
- enjoy: We even had a lift down by cable car and were able to enjoy lunch on the summit.
Preposition: on
- moorings: Stopped for lunch on the visitor moorings at the top of the Aston Locks.
Adjective modifier
- packed: Please see the packed lunch menu in your suite We require 24 hours notice for packed lunches to ensure the freshest of produce.
- leisurely: The absence of wind meant a leisurely lunch till the sea breeze finally made its way to Bewl Reservoir.
- delicious: We headed back to another delicious lunch at the lodge.
- hearty: We holed into a pub and enjoyed a hearty lunch.
Modifies a noun
- break: Drop by for a break from shopping or during your lunch break, pop in for a light lunch or Business Lunch.
- menu: Please see the packed lunch menu in your suite We require 24 hours notice for packed lunches to ensure the freshest of produce.
Noun used with modifier
- buffet: A free buffet lunch will be provided at both seminars.
- picnic: Picnic lunches can be obtained from shops in the village.
- sandwich: A sandwich lunch is provided for all full day courses.
- pub: Pub lunch day tomorrow, with my former colleagues.
- celebratory: However much lip-service may be paid at celebratory lunches.
- seafood: Day 11: Halong bay boat cruise, with a delicious seafood lunch served on board; overnight on Ca Ba Island.
Possessives
- plowman: Got to Upton for plowman's lunch in pub.
Preposition: at
- noon: There will be coffee/tea at 10.00am and a packed lunch at 12.00 noon.
Preposition: in
The free lunch has still to be invented.
My idea of long-range planning is lunch.
A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
The Emperor Caligula 's Habits were somewhat irrigula. When he sat down to lunch He got drunk at onch.
I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.
Browse dictionary entries near lunch
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- lunar (excursion) module
- lunar eclipse
- lunar caustic
- lunchbox
- luncheon
- luncheon meat
- luncheonette
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- Lundy's Lane
- lune
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