lunch
See also: Lunch
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /lʌnt͡ʃ/, /lʌnʃ/, [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌntʃ
NounEdit
lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)
- A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- box lunch
- brunch
- business lunch
- businessman's lunch
- cut lunch
- dairy lunch
- do lunch
- dry lunch
- dunch
- eat someone's lunch
- free lunch
- hot lunch
- launch one's lunch
- linner
- liquid lunch
- little lunch
- lose one's lunch
- lunch box
- lunch break
- lunch bucket
- lunch hour
- lunch kettle
- lunch lady
- lunch meat
- lunch money
- lunch pail
- lunch pail Democrat
- lunch-and-learn
- lunch-time
- lupper
- no free lunch theorem
- out to lunch
- packed lunch
- plate lunch
- playlunch
- ploughman's lunch
- plowman's lunch
- power lunch
- sack lunch
- split lunch
- there ain't no such thing as a free lunch
- there's no such thing as a free lunch
- three-martini lunch
DescendantsEdit
- Cantonese: lunch
- Dutch: lunch
- German: Lunch
- Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj
- Polish: lunch
- Portuguese: lanche
- Spanish: lonche
- Swedish: lunch
- Yiddish: לאָנטש (lontsh)
TranslationsEdit
meal around midday
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cricket break
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VerbEdit
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
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to eat lunch
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See alsoEdit
ChineseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lunch
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) lunch (Classifier: 個／个 c; 餐 c)
VerbEdit
lunch
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to eat lunch; to have lunch
Related termsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lunch m (plural lunchen or lunches, diminutive lunchje n)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- lunchen (verb)
- lunchtafel m or f
- lunchtijd m
- lunchuur n
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
lunch
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
- luncher (verb)
Further readingEdit
- “lunch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English lunch.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lunch m inan
- lunch (meal around midday)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of lunch
Further readingEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
lunch m (plural lunches)
Further readingEdit
- “lunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lunch c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of lunch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lunch | lunchen | luncher | luncherna |
| Genitive | lunchs | lunchens | lunchers | lunchernas |