lunch

(Hong Kong Cantonese) lunch (Classifier: 個／个 c; 餐 c)

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/


lunch

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to eat lunch; to have lunch

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/


lunch

nl-noun

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

lunchen (plural)
lunches (plural)
lunchje (diminutive neuter)


lunch

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative


lunch

We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.

(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.

After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.

(Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.

(obsolete) A think piece or hunk (of bread, meat, etc.)

en-noun

lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

→ Bengali: লাঞ্চ (lanco)

→ Cantonese: lunch

→ Dutch: lunch

→ French: lunch

→ German: Lunch

→ Japanese: ランチ (ranchi)

→ Korean: 런치 (reonchi)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj

→ Polish: lunch

→ Portuguese: lanche

→ Russian: ланч (lanč), ленч (lenč)

→ Spanish: lonche

→ Swedish: lunch

→ Ukrainian: ланч (lanč)

→ Yiddish: לאָנטש (lontsh)

dîner m (Belgium, Cajun, Swiss and Canadian French, in which "déjeuner" means "breakfast")

Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin.
The sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former.
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 midday 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”).


lunch

I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.

Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.

The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady.

1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291:

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

1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities:

en-verb

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

lunches (present singular third-person)
lunching (participle present)
lunched (participle past)
lunched (past)


lunch

a lunch, (usually light) meal around noon

a light meal with sandwiches, cold cuts, pastry etc. served at a festive reception


lunch

lunch (nominative singular)
lunche (nominative plural)
lunchu (genitive singular)
lunchów (genitive plural)
lunchowi (dative singular)
lunchom (dative plural)
lunch (accusative singular)
lunche (accusative plural)
lunchem (instrumental singular)
lunchami (instrumental plural)
lunchu (locative singular)
lunchach (locative plural)
lunchu (singular vocative)
lunche (plural vocative)


lunch

lunch (indefinite nominative singular)
lunchs (genitive indefinite singular)
lunchen (definite nominative singular)
lunchens (definite genitive singular)
luncher (indefinite nominative plural)
lunchers (genitive indefinite plural)
luncherna (definite nominative plural)
lunchernas (definite genitive plural)