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noun

lunch

luhnch
noun
1
A meal eaten around the middle of the day.
"We usually grab lunch at the café near the office."
"She skipped lunch to finish the report on time."
verb
1
To eat lunch.
"They lunched together every Friday to catch up on office gossip."

How to Use Lunch

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishThe meal you eat around midday.

Common pairings
have lunch pack a lunch lunch break out to lunch

Word Forms

lunched past tense, lunches plural, lunches singular

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Etymology

First recorded in the 1580s meaning simply "a hunk of food," lunch likely comes from lump, in the same way hunch comes from hump. The word later merged in meaning with luncheon, and by the 1800s lunch had become the everyday term for a midday meal.

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