lunch
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Recorded since 1580; presumably short for luncheon, but earliest found also as lunshin, lunching, equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing later modified to simulate a French origin. Lunch is possibly a variant of lump (as hunch is for hump, etc.), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche ("light mid-day meal"; see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lunch (plural lunches)
- A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
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1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
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- (cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
- (Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
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After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
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Translations[edit]
meal around midday
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cricket break
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Verb[edit]
lunch (third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)
- (intransitive) To eat lunch.
- I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
- Cole Porter
- Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.
- 1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles (page 291)
- The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady.
- (transitive) To treat to lunch.
- H. G. Wells
- We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.
- H. G. Wells
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Translations[edit]
to eat lunch
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Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lunch m (plural lunchen or lunches, diminutive lunchje n)
- A lunch, meal around noon
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- lunchen (verb)
- lunchtafel m, f
- lunchtijd m
- lunchuur n
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Verb[edit]
lunch
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English
Noun[edit]
lunch m (plural lunchs)
- A lunch, (usually light) meal around noon
- A light meal with sandwiches, cold cuts, pastry etc. served at a festive reception
Derived terms[edit]
- luncher (verb)
Further reading[edit]
- “lunch” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
lunch m (plural lunches)
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lunch c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of lunch | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lunch | lunchen | luncher | luncherna |
| Genitive | lunchs | lunchens | lunchers | lunchernas |
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References[edit]
- lunch in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
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