lunch

Meaning

Noun

1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
2. A break in play between the first and second sessions.
3. Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.

Verb

1. To eat lunch.
2. To treat to lunch.

Concepts

lunch

luncheon

midday meal

dinner

breakfast

snack

tiffin

meal

dejeuner

dine

main meal

noon

lunchtime

picnic

brunch

supper

eat

feed

brekker

prandial

light refreshments

diet

food

light meal

morning meal

eat lunch

cook

southwest

southwestward

dish

tea

noon meal

lurk

midday

have breakfast

groceries

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lʌnt͡ʃ/

Etymology

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 midday 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”).

Sentences

A lunch menu is also served .