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lunch
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Lunch
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lunch
/
lʌntʃ
/
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[
luhnch
]
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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.
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Idioms
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
lunch·er,
noun
lunch·less,
adjective
pre·lunch,
adjective,
noun
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
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World English Dictionary
lunch
(lʌntʃ)
—
n
1.
a meal eaten during the middle of the day
2.
(
Caribbean
) (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
—
vb
3.
(
intr
) to eat lunch
4.
(
tr
) to provide or buy lunch for
[C16: probably short form of
luncheon
]
'luncher
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
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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Example sentences
The first official meal of the trip is
lunch
at this hotel, once a hospital for
the nobility.
They are a perfect meal for
lunch
or dinner because they can be complete
nutritionally and aren't heavy.
The coat of a blue suit with white flannel or duck trousers for a
lunch
, or to
church, in the country.
The participants returned later in the day, about an hour after eating
lunch
,
and repeated the blind taste tests.
Then work until
lunch
, and again into the late afternoon.
Atrazine dust covered the walls and floors, countertops and
lunch
tables.
Self-efficacy and norm measures for
lunch
fruit and vegetable consumption are reliable and valid among fifth grade students.
These moths must rely on some other way of not becoming a bat's
lunch
.
Try this healthful salad as a light
lunch
or dinner served with some crusty, whole-grain bread.
Muskrat
lunch
was also available in the school cafeteria.
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lunch
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