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 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”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /lʌnt͡ʃ/, /lʌnʃ/, [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ]
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Noun edit
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.
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- bag lunch
- box lunch
- brunch
- business lunch
- businessman's lunch
- cut lunch
- dairy lunch
- do lunch
- dry lunch
- dunch
- Dutch lunch
- eat someone's lunch
- free lunch
- launch lunch
- launch one's lunch
- linner
- liquid lunch
- little lunch
- lose one's lunch
- lunch-and-learn
- lunch box
- lunch break
- lunch bucket
- lunch hour
- lunch kettle
- lunch lady
- lunch meat
- lunch money
- lunch pail
- lunch pail Democrat
- lunch-time
- lupper
- no free lunch theorem
- out to lunch
- packed lunch
- pack 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 is no free lunch
- there is no such thing as a free lunch
- there's no such thing as a free lunch
- three-martini lunch
Descendants edit
- → Bengali: লাঞ্চ (lanco)
- → Cantonese: lunch
- → Dutch: lunch
- → French: lunch
- → German: Lunch
- → Japanese: ランチ (ranchi)
- → Korean: 런치 (reonchi)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj
- → Polish: lunch
- → Portuguese: lanche
- → Russian: ланч (lanč), ленч (lenč)
- → Spanish: lonche
- → Swedish: lunch
- → Ukrainian: ланч (lanč)
- → Yiddish: לאָנטש (lontsh)
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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.
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lunch
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) lunch (Classifier: 個/个 c; 餐 c)
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lunch
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to eat lunch; to have lunch
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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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lunch
- inflection of lunchen:
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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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English lunch.
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Noun edit
lunch m inan
- lunch (meal around midday)
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lunch m (plural lunches)
Further reading edit
- “lunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
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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 |