Library / English Dictionary

LUNCH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midday meal

Synonyms:

dejeuner; lunch; luncheon; tiffin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("lunch" is a kind of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lunch"):

business lunch (lunch (usually at a restaurant) where business is discussed and the cost is charged as a business expense)

Derivation:

lunch (take the midday meal)

lunch (provide a midday meal for)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take the midday meal

Example:

At what time are you lunching?

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "lunch" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue lunch

Derivation:

lunch (a midday meal)

luncher (someone who is eating lunch)

lunching (the act of eating lunch)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide a midday meal for

Example:

She lunched us well

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "lunch" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

lunch (a midday meal)

Credits

 Context examples: 

My wrists and arms ached intolerably, and though I had eaten heartily of a twelve-o’clock lunch, I had worked so hard that I was faint from hunger.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Limit red meat, especially processed meats like hot dogs and lunch meats, and limit alcohol.

(Eating Yogurt May Lower Risk of Colon Cancer in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They had lunch in the restaurant, where he ordered wine and expensive delicacies and afterward he danced with her and with no one but her, till she was tired.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To be done prior to eating lunch.

(Before Lunch, NCI Thesaurus)

Fortunately, I had a definite clew, for there was a particular picture in his sketch-book which showed him taking lunch with a certain ecclesiastic at Rosario.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leo rules all things related to children too, including such areas as children’s clothing, books, games, lunch boxes, learning supplies, and teachers.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After lunch.

(After Lunch, NCI Thesaurus)

Lunch succeeded to our sight-seeing, and the short winter day wore away so fast, that it was dusk when the stage-coach stopped with us at an old brick house at Highgate on the summit of the hill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Will you, therefore, instead of lunching with us, please come to breakfast at eight o'clock, if this be not too early for you?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)