brunch
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch (countable and uncountable, plural brunches)
- A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
- I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
- Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
- Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
- April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus, “The Front”, in Rich Moore, director, The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
- I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Armenian: բրանչ (brančʻ)
- → Cantonese: 早午餐 (zou2 ng5 caan1)
- → Danish: brunch
- → Finnish: brunssi
- → French: brunch
- → German: Brunch
- → Georgian: ბრანჩი (branči)
- → Icelandic: bröns
- → Italian: brunch
- → Japanese: ブランチ (buranchi)
- → Korean: 브런치 (beureonchi)
- → Norwegian:
- → Polish: brunch
- → Portuguese: brunch
- → Romanian: brunch
- → Russian: бранч (branč)
- → Spanish: brunch
- → Swedish: brunch
- → Yiddish: בראָנטש (brontsh)
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See also edit
Verb edit
brunch (third-person singular simple present brunches, present participle brunching, simple past and past participle brunched)
- To eat brunch.
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch c (singular definite brunchen, plural indefinite bruncher)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
brunch
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
brunch m (plural brunchen)
- A brunch.
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
brunch
- inflection of brunchen:
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch (rare)
Declension edit
Inflection of brunch (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | brunch | brunchit | ||
genitive | brunchin | brunchien | ||
partitive | brunchia | bruncheja | ||
illative | brunchiin | bruncheihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | brunch | brunchit | ||
accusative | nom. | brunch | brunchit | |
gen. | brunchin | |||
genitive | brunchin | brunchien | ||
partitive | brunchia | bruncheja | ||
inessive | brunchissa | bruncheissa | ||
elative | brunchista | bruncheista | ||
illative | brunchiin | bruncheihin | ||
adessive | brunchilla | bruncheilla | ||
ablative | brunchilta | bruncheilta | ||
allative | brunchille | bruncheille | ||
essive | brunchina | bruncheina | ||
translative | brunchiksi | bruncheiksi | ||
abessive | brunchitta | bruncheitta | ||
instructive | — | brunchein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- “brunch”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch m (plural brunches)
Related terms edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Noun edit
brunch m (invariable)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- brunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch m (plural brunches)
- brunch (meal eaten later than breakfast and earlier than lunch)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Noun edit
brunch n (plural brunch-uri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) brunch | brunchul | (niște) brunch-uri | brunch-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) brunch | brunchului | (unor) brunch-uri | brunch-urilor |
vocative | brunchule | brunch-urilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch m (plural brunchs)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “brunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brunch c
Declension edit
Declension of brunch | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | brunch | brunchen | bruncher | bruncherna |
Genitive | brunchs | brunchens | brunchers | brunchernas |