packed lunch

English

American bagged lunch

Japanese bento packed lunch

Alternative forms

• pack lunch

Noun

packed lunch (plural packed lunches)

1. A meal, sandwiches or anything packed and intended to be eaten away from home; especially, one packed at home as opposed to a portable packaged lunch from a vendor.

   I forgot my packed lunch when I left for work this morning.

Hyponyms

• box lunch
• sack lunch

 

Related terms

• lunchbox
• lunchmeat
• plate lunch

 

Translations

picnic meal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自備的午餐／自备的午餐 (zìbèi de wǔcān), 飯盒／饭盒 (zh) (fànhé)

• Danish: madpakke (da)
• Finnish: eväät, eväspaketti
• Icelandic: nesti (is) n
• Italian: pranzo al sacco m
• Japanese: 弁当 (ja) (べんとう, bentō), お弁当 (ja) (おべんとう, o-bentō)
• Korean: 도시락 (ko) (dosirak)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: matpakke (no)

• Norwegian Nynorsk: matpakke
• Portuguese: farnel (pt) m, merenda (pt) f
• Russian: (military) сухо́й паёк m (suxój pajók), (Japanese style) бэнто́ (ru) n (bɛntó)
• Swedish: matsäck (sv) c
• Vietnamese: cơm hộp (vi)

See also

• bento
• bento box
• mixed plate
• picnic
• square meal

 

Further reading

• packed lunch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia