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lunch

  [luhnch]
Use Lunch in a Sentence
–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)
4. to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.
–verb (used with object)
5. to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.
—Idiom
6. 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.
Origin:
1585–95; short for luncheon

Related forms:
luncher, noun
lunchless, adjective
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lunch   (lŭnch)   
n.  
  1. A meal eaten at midday.
  2. The food provided for a midday meal.
intr.v.   lunched, lunch·ing, lunch·es
To eat a midday meal.

[Short for luncheon.]
lunch'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Lunch

Lunch\, n. [Of uncertain etymol. Cf. Prov. Eng. nunc a lump.] A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

Lunch

Lunch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lunched; p. pr. & vb. n. Lunching.] To take luncheon. --Smart.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Lunch
Spanish: almuerzo, comida,
German: das Mittagessen,
Japanese: 昼食
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lunch 
modern sense of "mid-day repast" is 1829, shortened form of luncheon. The verb meaning "to take to lunch" is attested from 1823.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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lunch

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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