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]
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  • Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

NounEdit

lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)

  1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. (cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. (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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DescendantsEdit

  • Cantonese: lunch
  • Dutch: lunch
  • German: Lunch
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj
  • Polish: lunch
  • Portuguese: lanche
  • Spanish: lonche
  • Swedish: lunch
  • Yiddish: לאָנטש(lontsh)

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VerbEdit

lunch (third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To treat to lunch.

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ChineseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English lunch.

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NounEdit

lunch

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) lunch (Classifier: c;  c)

VerbEdit

lunch

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to eat lunch; to have lunch

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English lunch.

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NounEdit

lunch m (plural lunchen or lunches, diminutive lunchje n)

  1. A lunch, a meal eaten around noon

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lunch

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lunchen
  2. imperative of lunchen

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English lunch.

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NounEdit

lunch m (plural lunchs)

  1. a lunch, (usually light) meal around noon
  2. a light meal with sandwiches, cold cuts, pastry etc. served at a festive reception

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PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English lunch.

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NounEdit

lunch m inan

  1. lunch (meal around midday)

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Further readingEdit

  • lunch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English lunch.

NounEdit

lunch m (plural lunches)

  1. lunch

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English lunch.

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lunch c

  1. a lunch, a meal eaten about noon

DeclensionEdit

Declension of lunch 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lunch lunchen luncher luncherna
Genitive lunchs lunchens lunchers lunchernas

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