lunch
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 derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), 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]
- IPA(key): /lʌnt͡ʃ/, /lʌnʃ/, [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ]
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Noun[edit]
lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)
- A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
- 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.
- (cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
- (Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
- After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
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Descendants[edit]
- Dutch: lunch
- German: Lunch
- Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj
- Portuguese: lanche
- Spanish: lonche
- Swedish: lunch
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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.
- 1934, Cole Porter, Miss Otis Regrets
- 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.
- 1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities
- We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.
- 1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities
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Dutch[edit]
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Noun[edit]
lunch m (plural lunchen or lunches, diminutive lunchje n)
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- lunchen (verb)
- lunchtafel m or f
- lunchtijd m
- lunchuur n
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Verb[edit]
lunch
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French[edit]
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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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
lunch m (plural lunches)
Swedish[edit]
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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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