lunch

Use lunch in a sentence

A girl eats her school lunch.

noun

The definition of lunch is a meal eaten at midday.
An example of lunch is a sandwich at noon after meeting a friend.

verb

To lunch is defined as to eat a midday meal.
An example of lunch is to go out to get a nice meal with friends at 1pm.

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lunch

any light meal; esp., the regular midday meal between breakfast and dinner
the food prepared for such a meal
lunchtime

Origin of lunch

earlier, a piece, thick piece from uncertain or unknown; perhaps ; first appears as rendering of Spanish lonja, slice of ham, which it formerly paralleled in pronunciation

to eat lunch

to provide lunch for

lunch Idioms

out to lunch

Slang

inattentive, distracted, etc.
eccentric or insane

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lunch

noun

A meal eaten at midday.
The food provided for a midday meal.

intransitive verb

lunched, lunch·ing, lunch·es

To eat a midday meal.

Origin of lunch

Short for luncheon

Related Forms:

lunch′er
noun

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Noun

(plural lunches)

A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
(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.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)

To eat lunch.
I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.

Origin

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")

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