See also: 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]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

Noun edit

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.

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Translations edit

Verb edit

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.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Translations edit

See also edit

Chinese edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From English lunch.

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

lunch

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

Verb edit

lunch

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

Related terms edit

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English lunch.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

  1. A lunch, a meal eaten around noon

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Verb edit

lunch

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

See also edit

French edit

Etymology edit

From English lunch.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Polish edit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English lunch.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lunch m inan

  1. lunch (meal around midday)

Declension edit

Further reading edit

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

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English lunch.

Noun edit

lunch m (plural lunches)

  1. lunch

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From English lunch.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lunch c

  1. a lunch, a meal eaten about noon

Declension edit

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

Related terms edit

See also edit

References edit