lunchroom
a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
a luncheonette.
Origin of lunchroom
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How to use lunchroom in a sentence
That is, the school houses three cafeterias, which caused students to sort themselves into the “appropriate” lunchroom based on social cliques.
Friendships with rich people may help lift children out of poverty | Sujata Gupta | August 1, 2022 | Science NewsFor example, after learning about oil and plastic pollution at an AJR concert, a young high school girl in Indianapolis started a campaign to end all single-use plastic in her school’s lunchroom.
How the Universal Language of Music Can Help Us Solve Our Planetary Problem | Dana R. Fisher | June 24, 2022 | TimeThe lunchroom, not to mention the coffee, was a hit, but the idea of “automating” came a little later, in 1902.
The Automat Traces the History of a Beloved Restaurant Chain, With Mel Brooks as a Guide | Stephanie Zacharek | February 18, 2022 | TimeFree food for kids, a practice that extended the lunchroom into homes during the pandemic and could fight child hunger long term.
When kids do need to go indoors, she adds, the school has converted one big room into a giant lunchroom where everyone can eat six feet apart.
Here’s how COVID-19 is changing classes this year | Bethany Brookshire | September 8, 2020 | Science News For Students
Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSometimes, the kids would make fun of Mrs. Johnston in the lunchroom, that she cried in class and everything.
He waited until Graham had joined the office force in the mill lunchroom, and invented an errand back to Graham's office.
Dangerous Days | Mary Roberts RinehartThen he shook himself and ran lightly to a little lunchroom on Amsterdam Avenue, where he enjoyed doughnuts and iced tea.
Where the Blue Begins | Christopher MorleyI told you about the little lunchroom where the readers from the library get their noonday feed.
Short Stories of Various Types | VariousThey left the base lunchroom in silence, Bridget pouting a lip-edge more than Grant.
A Fine Fix | R. C. NollI can't remember who ate in the lunchroom, I mean the domino room, with me.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for lunchroom
/ (ˈlʌntʃˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /
US and Canadian a room where lunch is served or where students, employees, etc, may eat lunches they bring
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