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English

Etymology

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 mid-day 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

• IPA^(key): /l?nt??/, /l?n?/, [l??nt??]
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (midday meal): luncheon; nones (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dutch: lunch
• German: Lunch
• Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj
• Polish: lunch
• Portuguese: lanche
• Spanish: lonche
• Swedish: lunch

Translations

Verb

lunch (third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)

1. (intransitive) To eat lunch.
   • 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.
   • 1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities

     We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.

Derived terms

Related terms

• luncheonette

Translations

See also

• breakfast
• dine, dinner
• supper

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English lunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/
• Hyphenation: lunch

Noun

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

1. A lunch, a meal eaten around noon

Synonyms

• middageten n

Derived terms

• lunchen (verb)
• lunchtafel m or f
• lunchtijd m
• lunchuur n

Related terms

• brunchen (verb)
• lunchroom

Verb

lunch

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

See also

• maaltijd
• ontbijt

French

Etymology

From English lunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lœ??/

Noun

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

• luncher (verb)

Further reading

• “lunch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English lunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant??/

Noun

lunch m inan

1. lunch (meal around midday)

Declension

Further reading

• lunch in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

lunch m (plural lunches)

1. lunch

Swedish

Etymology

From English lunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?n?/

Noun

lunch c

1. a lunch, a meal eaten about noon

Declension

Related terms

See also

• middag

References

• lunch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st??t??/, [?st??t.??], [?st?????]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??
• Hyphenation: start?ing

Verb

starting

1. present participle of start

Derived terms

Noun

starting (plural startings)

1. The act of something that starts.

   constant startings and stoppings

Anagrams

• rattings