lunch
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
any light meal or snack.
a restaurant or lunchroom: Let's eat at the dairy lunch.
to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.
to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.
Idioms about lunch
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 of lunch
1Other words from lunch
- luncher, noun
- lunchless, adjective
- pre·lunch, adjective, noun
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How to use lunch in a sentence
Standard editors William Kristol and Fred Barnes then lunched with Governor Sarah Palin.
We revived our schooldays with mutual pleasure, and lunched together as befitted the occasion.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowGouraud, Girodon and Hunter-Weston lunched and we spent the afternoon at the scheme for our next fight.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonIt was delightfully wooded scenery through which we passed, and a snug little spot where we lunched.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowAfter a dusty walk round piers and beaches lunched with Hunter-Weston before inspecting the 155th and 156th Brigades.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
Lunched with Backhouse in a delicious garden under a spreading fig tree; then rode back.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for lunch
/ (lʌntʃ) /
a meal eaten during the middle of the day
Caribbean (among older people) mid-afternoon tea
(intr) to eat lunch
(tr) to provide or buy lunch for
Origin of lunch
1Derived forms of lunch
- luncher, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with lunch
see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).
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