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Definition of lunch in English: lunchnoun lʌn(t)ʃlən(t)ʃ A meal eaten in the middle of the day, typically one that is lighter or less formal than an evening meal. mass noun do join us for lunch as modifier a lunch meeting Example sentencesExamples - He finished his lunch with his friend, Luke, before proceeding to leave his tray at a counter.
- Next came a fully-fledged restaurant, open throughout the day and for lunches (though not evening meals), which was extended this year to double its original size.
- As I ate my packed lunch, I wandered through the tiny cemetery butted against the church.
- An excellent buffet lunch was prepared and served by the trainees in catering.
- We ordered our lunches and devoured the meal in silence.
- On Monday, he served just three lunches and three evening meals; on Tuesday, four lunches and no evening meals.
- We enjoyed a relaxing leisurely lunch before starting the afternoon session.
- We had a full course buffet lunch at a poolside club restaurant and the food combination was very good.
- Meanwhile, Jimmy was in school eating lunch with his friends.
- Try breaking out of routines like always eating lunch in the cafeteria at work.
- We need to get our school lunch programs back in healthy order.
- Daily lunches and evening meals are arranged by various organizations and individual donators who make monetary donations that go towards food for the children.
- We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop.
- We had a quick picnic lunch at one of the wooden tables and set off.
- They had just finished their lunch in the cafeteria.
- There is also a lunch menu, priced at £17 for three courses.
- But meanwhile George's mother had cooked a delicious Sunday lunch.
- Price also includes breakfast, afternoon tea and a combination of four evening meals and two lunches.
- I started packing my own lunches and planning meals ahead of time.
- The free buffet lunches were appreciated; the 45-minute talk on plagiarism was utterly extraneous.
Synonyms evening meal, supper, main meal, repast
verb lʌn(t)ʃlən(t)ʃ 1no object, with adverbial Eat lunch. he told his wife he was lunching with a client Example sentencesExamples - Whatever he might have added was cut off as they had reached the small patio where they'd lunched the previous day.
- We made drawings of gravestones of dead monks, lunched in local pub and had a swell trip.
- Yesterday he walked over the tops and lunched at Dick Hudson's pub before walking on to Riddlesden and Keighley.
- ‘I was driving a Porsche and lunching at the Ritz - all courtesy of the company's expense account,’ she told Real magazine.
- Then they met every day at twelve o'clock on the sea-front, lunched and dined together, went for walks, and admired the sea.
- During my painstaking journey back to the table, I pass the two of them lunching together.
- It was mid-week so things were quiet; couples were lunching at picnic tables and elderly men and women were lounging around in various states of undress.
- The girls visited The Chocolate Factory, The Wax museum and Kylemore indoor karting before lunching in Jury's Hotel.
- She was a devotee in Swifty's, the successor to her beloved Mortimer's, and she lunched and dined there often.
- A couple of hours later, the O'Briens are lunching in the café.
- Mick said how lucky it was that the trip went ahead because while they were lunching at a secluded quay, away from civilisation, they heard children screaming and shouting.
- He also spent 30 minutes lunching with farmers in the canteen - on egg-mayonnaise sandwiches - before unveiling a plaque.
- Life on board involved early-morning swims, leisurely breakfasts and then short passages between sheltered coves where we lunched and swam for several hours.
- Although he is still lunching with the company's bosses and touring their petrochemical plant, he has fitted in a meeting with the local environmental group first.
- If you're getting a queasy feeling about lunching, dining or having coffee with someone you've met on the job, there's probably a reason.
- I'll report here on any progress he makes but I wanted to mention what a great time I had lunching with all those Frank Buxtons today.
- After lunching at the captain's table, the youthful troupe was treated to a tour of the vessel and a chance to witness first hand the wonders of advanced communication technology.
- I'll try and meet up with him to walk to our lockers and then lunch together.
- Even those who had for weeks recited the political rationale of the meeting found themselves stunned at the sight of a British prime minister lunching with one of the world's most notorious dictators.
- I missed breakfast, lunched on three ripe, juicy plums, and dined on a plate of salad with a jacket potato and a slice of very lean pork.
Synonyms have a meal, partake of food, take food, consume food, feed - 1.1with object Take (someone) out for lunch.
public relations people lunch their clients there Example sentencesExamples - Then an official of the Foreign Office lunched my editor and told him my report was ‘not helpful’.
- Their lobbyists breakfast, lunch and dine our elected representatives every day.
- He lunched and dined the likes of the editors of the Daily Mail and the Sun, and wooed them by emphasizing how he would tackle the rising welfare bill and the moral chaos it engendered.
- The North Korean leader, in expansive mood while lunching southern media moguls, suggested a repeat in September and October.
- He was lunched by the prime minister and dined by the president.
- She was lunched at a popular political and media haunt - all for the purpose of public consumption.
- One of the world's biggest investment banks desperately wants in, and recently lunched the Senator.
Phrases you're a doll—we'll do lunch! Example sentencesExamples - Actually, I was thinking that maybe you might like to do lunch, if you aren't too busy.
- Give me a call, Steve, and let's do lunch sometime.
- I'm sure you already told her we'd do lunch today, and you have it all set up, and asking me was just a formality.
- Mario had made plans to meet up with his older brother and do lunch at a restaurant close by.
- We hadn't seen each other since before Christmas, so they brought my gifts (I'd dropped mine for them off at their house on Thanksgiving) and we did lunch at Hometown Buffet.
- When I'm visiting home this is one of the places I like to meet friends, it's a good place to do lunch of afternoon drinks.
- He is my former producer from Washington, he said he would take the train to meet me and we would do lunch.
- I was wondering if we could do lunch and discuss business.
- But most of them are going to be far too busy doing lunch and phoning people.
- Modern fiction editors are too busy reading synopses and doing lunch to have any time to think about structure.
informal Temporarily not in command of one's mental faculties. Example sentencesExamples - He's out to lunch on this offshore thing but it's playing well at home.
- Of course, some people think I'm out to lunch because we don't do that in America.
- I count the editor of the Independent as a friend, so the main reason I hesitate to say that he is out to lunch on this issue is that I was out to dinner with him last night.
- The message was clear: parliament is out of touch as well as out to lunch.
- It's no use, because his support cast is either out to lunch, or not listening.
- I think unfortunately this doctor and her staff are a bit out to lunch… they seem unaware of what they are doing.
- The waiters are a bit out to lunch and service was a bit slow, but we were not in a rush.
- Let us just say that, if not exactly out to lunch, she was certainly taking a coffee break and regrets her previous advice.
- Many gay marriage opponents are just plain out to lunch.
there's no such thing as a free lunch proverb It isn't possible to get something for nothing. Example sentencesExamples - They say that there's no such thing as a free lunch, but it is possible to get fat while your employer helps to pick up the bill!
- Whoever said there's no such thing as a free lunch hasn't been on the Web lately.
- It turns out that the best of the free software programs and Web services nullify the notion that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
- If there's one thing I know, it's that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
- So again, it underlines the fact that there's no such thing as a free lunch in the investment area.
- Everyone knows there's no such thing as a free lunch.
- However, there's no such thing as a free lunch: those toys that are so attractive to children have a price, as the US is discovering.
- We all know that there's no such thing as a free lunch but the monies involved in going to see your county in action in the championship isn't for the faint-hearted.
- In the diplomatic world, there's no such thing as a free lunch and Arab leaders are unlikely to back down on that condition.
- Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch, and a day off now has to be made up later.
Derivatives noun It's a happening little spot with gourmet fast food for lunchers downtown. Example sentencesExamples - The line of food court lunchers snakes out the door at 12:10 p.m., so if you don't want to stand in line for a few minutes, try to get there a bit early.
- Most hungry lunchers, I suspect, would rather opt for a sandwich and a packet of crisps than a pot of warm, fresh porridge - however well prepared, attractively presented and nutritious it may be.
- A wall-mounted blackboard tempts lunchers to the daily menu.
- Accessorize the table with an umbrella to keep lounging lunchers from getting sunburned.
Origin Early 19th century: abbreviation of luncheon. Until the 19th century a light midday meal was a luncheon (late 16th century), and when the shortened form lunch appeared in the 1820s people regarded it as either lower-class or a fashionable affectation. Luncheon was probably derived from Spanish lonja ‘slice’. See also lady, supper. The modern proverb there's no such thing as a free lunch, was first used in the 1960s among US economists. It was probably suggested by the practice, dating from the mid 19th century, of some bars providing free lunch if you bought a drink.
Rhymes brunch, bunch, crunch, hunch, munch, punch, scrunch Definition of lunch in US English: lunchnounlən(t)SHlən(t)ʃ A meal eaten in the middle of the day, typically one that is lighter or less formal than an evening meal. Example sentencesExamples - We had a quick picnic lunch at one of the wooden tables and set off.
- We were running a little late and I was famished, so we broke a rule and had a light lunch in the coffee shop.
- They had just finished their lunch in the cafeteria.
- Next came a fully-fledged restaurant, open throughout the day and for lunches (though not evening meals), which was extended this year to double its original size.
- I started packing my own lunches and planning meals ahead of time.
- We need to get our school lunch programs back in healthy order.
- Daily lunches and evening meals are arranged by various organizations and individual donators who make monetary donations that go towards food for the children.
- An excellent buffet lunch was prepared and served by the trainees in catering.
- As I ate my packed lunch, I wandered through the tiny cemetery butted against the church.
- Price also includes breakfast, afternoon tea and a combination of four evening meals and two lunches.
- We had a full course buffet lunch at a poolside club restaurant and the food combination was very good.
- The free buffet lunches were appreciated; the 45-minute talk on plagiarism was utterly extraneous.
- There is also a lunch menu, priced at £17 for three courses.
- We enjoyed a relaxing leisurely lunch before starting the afternoon session.
- On Monday, he served just three lunches and three evening meals; on Tuesday, four lunches and no evening meals.
- But meanwhile George's mother had cooked a delicious Sunday lunch.
- We ordered our lunches and devoured the meal in silence.
- Meanwhile, Jimmy was in school eating lunch with his friends.
- He finished his lunch with his friend, Luke, before proceeding to leave his tray at a counter.
- Try breaking out of routines like always eating lunch in the cafeteria at work.
Synonyms evening meal, supper, main meal, repast
verblən(t)SHlən(t)ʃ 1no object, with adverbial Eat lunch. he told his wife he was lunching with a client Example sentencesExamples - Even those who had for weeks recited the political rationale of the meeting found themselves stunned at the sight of a British prime minister lunching with one of the world's most notorious dictators.
- It was mid-week so things were quiet; couples were lunching at picnic tables and elderly men and women were lounging around in various states of undress.
- I'll report here on any progress he makes but I wanted to mention what a great time I had lunching with all those Frank Buxtons today.
- Whatever he might have added was cut off as they had reached the small patio where they'd lunched the previous day.
- We made drawings of gravestones of dead monks, lunched in local pub and had a swell trip.
- Life on board involved early-morning swims, leisurely breakfasts and then short passages between sheltered coves where we lunched and swam for several hours.
- I missed breakfast, lunched on three ripe, juicy plums, and dined on a plate of salad with a jacket potato and a slice of very lean pork.
- The girls visited The Chocolate Factory, The Wax museum and Kylemore indoor karting before lunching in Jury's Hotel.
- Yesterday he walked over the tops and lunched at Dick Hudson's pub before walking on to Riddlesden and Keighley.
- After lunching at the captain's table, the youthful troupe was treated to a tour of the vessel and a chance to witness first hand the wonders of advanced communication technology.
- During my painstaking journey back to the table, I pass the two of them lunching together.
- I'll try and meet up with him to walk to our lockers and then lunch together.
- If you're getting a queasy feeling about lunching, dining or having coffee with someone you've met on the job, there's probably a reason.
- Mick said how lucky it was that the trip went ahead because while they were lunching at a secluded quay, away from civilisation, they heard children screaming and shouting.
- A couple of hours later, the O'Briens are lunching in the café.
- She was a devotee in Swifty's, the successor to her beloved Mortimer's, and she lunched and dined there often.
- ‘I was driving a Porsche and lunching at the Ritz - all courtesy of the company's expense account,’ she told Real magazine.
- Then they met every day at twelve o'clock on the sea-front, lunched and dined together, went for walks, and admired the sea.
- He also spent 30 minutes lunching with farmers in the canteen - on egg-mayonnaise sandwiches - before unveiling a plaque.
- Although he is still lunching with the company's bosses and touring their petrochemical plant, he has fitted in a meeting with the local environmental group first.
Synonyms have a meal, partake of food, take food, consume food, feed - 1.1with object Take (someone) out for lunch.
public relations people lunch their clients there Example sentencesExamples - Then an official of the Foreign Office lunched my editor and told him my report was ‘not helpful’.
- He was lunched by the prime minister and dined by the president.
- Their lobbyists breakfast, lunch and dine our elected representatives every day.
- One of the world's biggest investment banks desperately wants in, and recently lunched the Senator.
- She was lunched at a popular political and media haunt - all for the purpose of public consumption.
- The North Korean leader, in expansive mood while lunching southern media moguls, suggested a repeat in September and October.
- He lunched and dined the likes of the editors of the Daily Mail and the Sun, and wooed them by emphasizing how he would tackle the rising welfare bill and the moral chaos it engendered.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Modern fiction editors are too busy reading synopses and doing lunch to have any time to think about structure.
- I'm sure you already told her we'd do lunch today, and you have it all set up, and asking me was just a formality.
- Give me a call, Steve, and let's do lunch sometime.
- But most of them are going to be far too busy doing lunch and phoning people.
- He is my former producer from Washington, he said he would take the train to meet me and we would do lunch.
- Actually, I was thinking that maybe you might like to do lunch, if you aren't too busy.
- I was wondering if we could do lunch and discuss business.
- We hadn't seen each other since before Christmas, so they brought my gifts (I'd dropped mine for them off at their house on Thanksgiving) and we did lunch at Hometown Buffet.
- When I'm visiting home this is one of the places I like to meet friends, it's a good place to do lunch of afternoon drinks.
- Mario had made plans to meet up with his older brother and do lunch at a restaurant close by.
informal Unaware of or inattentive to present conditions. Example sentencesExamples - I think unfortunately this doctor and her staff are a bit out to lunch… they seem unaware of what they are doing.
- The waiters are a bit out to lunch and service was a bit slow, but we were not in a rush.
- I count the editor of the Independent as a friend, so the main reason I hesitate to say that he is out to lunch on this issue is that I was out to dinner with him last night.
- It's no use, because his support cast is either out to lunch, or not listening.
- Of course, some people think I'm out to lunch because we don't do that in America.
- Many gay marriage opponents are just plain out to lunch.
- Let us just say that, if not exactly out to lunch, she was certainly taking a coffee break and regrets her previous advice.
- He's out to lunch on this offshore thing but it's playing well at home.
- The message was clear: parliament is out of touch as well as out to lunch.
there's no such thing as a free lunch proverb It isn't possible to get something for nothing. Example sentencesExamples - Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch, and a day off now has to be made up later.
- If there's one thing I know, it's that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
- However, there's no such thing as a free lunch: those toys that are so attractive to children have a price, as the US is discovering.
- In the diplomatic world, there's no such thing as a free lunch and Arab leaders are unlikely to back down on that condition.
- Whoever said there's no such thing as a free lunch hasn't been on the Web lately.
- They say that there's no such thing as a free lunch, but it is possible to get fat while your employer helps to pick up the bill!
- Everyone knows there's no such thing as a free lunch.
- So again, it underlines the fact that there's no such thing as a free lunch in the investment area.
- We all know that there's no such thing as a free lunch but the monies involved in going to see your county in action in the championship isn't for the faint-hearted.
- It turns out that the best of the free software programs and Web services nullify the notion that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Origin Early 19th century: abbreviation of luncheon. |