Lunch definition
To eat a midday meal.
verb
Any light meal; esp., the regular midday meal between breakfast and dinner.
noun
To eat lunch.
verb
The food provided for a midday meal.
noun
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.
verb
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To provide lunch for.
verb
The definition of lunch is a meal eaten at midday.
An example of lunch is a sandwich at noon after meeting a friend.
noun
The food prepared for such a meal.
noun
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(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.
noun
A meal eaten at midday.
noun
(slang) out to lunch
- Not in touch with the real world; crazy.
idiom
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(slang) out to lunch
- inattentive, distracted, etc.
- eccentric or insane
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of lunch
- Short for luncheon
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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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