"luncheon" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "luncheon bar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "luncheonette"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "luncheon meat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "luncheon sausage"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "luncheon truncheon"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lunching"
      },
      "expansion": "lunching",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lunch"
      },
      "expansion": "lunch",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nuncheon",
        "t": "light snack taken in the afternoon"
      },
      "expansion": "nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "luncheon sausage"
      },
      "expansion": "luncheon sausage",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "luncheon meat"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier lunching, of uncertain origin.\nPossibly related to lunch, q.v. It is unclear which came first. Possibly influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”).\nThe \"sausage\" sense is probably a shortening of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luncheons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "lun‧cheon"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "nuncheon"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Writing staff, “22 Short Films About Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21, spoken by Principal Skinner (Harry Shearer)",
          "text": "Superintendent Chalmers: Well, Seymour, I made it — despite your directions.\nPrincipal Skinner: Ahhh, Superintendent Chalmers! Welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A formal meal served in the middle of the day."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-noun-oTmqiKGt",
      "links": [
        [
          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
        [
          "meal",
          "meal"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "63 14 15 1 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wǔyàn",
          "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
          "word": "午宴"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 14 15 1 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gōngzuò wǔcān",
          "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
          "word": "工作午餐"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 14 15 1 7",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
          "word": "lounastilaisuus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 14 15 1 7",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
          "word": "jamuan tengah hari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 14 15 1 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "almoço"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 14 15 1 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obed",
          "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "обед"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 46 18 2 11 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 44 22 4 13 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 36 11 8 25 6 2",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Meals",
          "orig": "en:Meals",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 June 3, John Pratt, Anna Eriksson, “Understanding differences in punishment”, in Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, Taylor & Francis, page 31",
          "text": "Filled Roll (x2) 1x luncheon, tomato, lettuce, and mayonnaise / 1x cheese and onion",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-noun-Cu7GvW2X",
      "links": [
        [
          "large",
          "large"
        ],
        [
          "cheap",
          "cheap"
        ],
        [
          "processed",
          "processed"
        ],
        [
          "thin",
          "thin"
        ],
        [
          "slice",
          "slice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand) A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Belgium"
        },
        {
          "word": "devon"
        },
        {
          "word": "fritz"
        },
        {
          "word": "polony"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 87 2 1 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "similar product",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices",
          "word": "lauantaimakkara"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1931, Mildred Wirt (as Carolyn Keene), The Mystery at Lilac Inn (page 4)",
          "text": "Have you had luncheon?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any midday meal; lunch."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-noun-ZJHbPPdq",
      "links": [
        [
          "lunch",
          "lunch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) Any midday meal; lunch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "dated",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 5 63 9 20",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "dated term for lunch",
          "word": "puolinen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A lump of food."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-noun-SliWc38z",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A lump of food."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-noun-55nNyJ~0",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʌntʃ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʌnʃ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌntʃən"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "lunching"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luncheon"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lunching"
      },
      "expansion": "lunching",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lunch"
      },
      "expansion": "lunch",
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    },
    {
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        "1": "en",
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "luncheon sausage"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "luncheon meat"
      },
      "expansion": "luncheon meat",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier lunching, of uncertain origin.\nPossibly related to lunch, q.v. It is unclear which came first. Possibly influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”).\nThe \"sausage\" sense is probably a shortening of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luncheons",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luncheoning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luncheoned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luncheoned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "luncheon (third-person singular simple present luncheons, present participle luncheoning, simple past and past participle luncheoned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "lun‧cheon"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "lunch"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tiffin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "dejeuner"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby",
          "text": "In the meantime, while ladies are luncheoning on chicken pie, or coursing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular ceremonies of a London morning in the heart of the season[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat luncheon."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-verb-H3MOH2jU",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, dated) To eat luncheon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to eat luncheon — see also lunch",
          "word": "lounastaa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896 May 1, H. P. Robinson, “Digressions. V.—The Convention.”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XLIII, number 1878, London: Henry Greenwood & Co., […], page 277, column 1",
          "text": "Towns welcomed us in our hundreds; M.P.’s luncheoned us, manufacturers turned out their warehouses, decorated them and feasted us; private families tea’d us on their lawns, but we were so true to our art that we always returned to—“papers!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Public, page 109",
          "text": "This gentleman was presented by Colonel C. E. S. Wood, and was entertained here—wined, dined, tead, breakfasted, coffeed and luncheoned—and we bought his pictures.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, The Stanford Illustrated Review, volume 38, number 13, page 23, column 1",
          "text": "[…] entertained him at the Bohemian Club; Edward D. Kneass, Jr., ’18, extended to him the greeting of the San Francisco Press Club; and Frank J. Taylor, ’18, luncheoned him at the Honolulu Club.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939 February 4, “Detroit”, in Boxoffice, volume 34, number 11, Associated Publications, page 102, column 2",
          "text": "A number of friends of Mrs. H. M. Richey, wife of H. M., luncheoned her on Thursday at the Warden Hotel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 February 21, Norman F. Carroll, “[Class Notes] 09”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47, number 19, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, page 15, column 3",
          "text": "To soften him up, a group of his fellows luncheoned him at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949 February 23, “Broadway”, in Variety, volume 173, number 11, New York, N.Y., page 54, column 2",
          "text": "Mrs. Harry (Sybil) Brand farewell-luncheoned her New York friends Monday (21), before taking off for Paris with John Haskell, representing TWA, on month’s vacation, first time over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Charles H[enry] Baker, Jr., The South American Gentleman’s Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book; Or, Up & Down the Andes with Knife, Fork & Spoon, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., page 66",
          "text": "We won’t try to lie to you for, bro-ther! until that recent noon when Don Fernando Carlés, Number 1 at National City Bank in Buenos Aires, luncheoned us at this fantastic Jockey Club—and invitations to this fantastic block-square brownstone Mansion in Calle Florída are nothing to view lightly—we could take our sting-rays or leave ’em alone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Paramount World, volume 9, page 22",
          "text": "The Legal Department's Richard Colby went off to other pastures, so early this month his associates luncheoned him at Rosoff's, and in the tradition of the profession, all remarks were off the record.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966 September 7, Geo. H. Carver, “Sports Slices”, in The Intelligencer, Belleville, Ont., page 13",
          "text": "There must have been a chip of the blarney stone in the Irish stew the pretty stewardess luncheoned us with, for one quipped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To serve luncheon to."
      ],
      "id": "en-luncheon-en-verb-0JXlxBbd",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To serve luncheon to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to serve luncheon — see also lunch",
          "word": "tarjota lounas"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈlʌnʃ.ən/",
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        "UK"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
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    }
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}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌntʃən",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌntʃən/2 syllables",
    "en:Meals"
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    {
      "word": "luncheon bar"
    },
    {
      "word": "luncheonette"
    },
    {
      "word": "luncheon meat"
    },
    {
      "word": "luncheon sausage"
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    {
      "word": "luncheon truncheon"
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        "plural"
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Writing staff, “22 Short Films About Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21, spoken by Principal Skinner (Harry Shearer)",
          "text": "Superintendent Chalmers: Well, Seymour, I made it — despite your directions.\nPrincipal Skinner: Ahhh, Superintendent Chalmers! Welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A formal meal served in the middle of the day."
      ],
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      ],
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 June 3, John Pratt, Anna Eriksson, “Understanding differences in punishment”, in Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, Taylor & Francis, page 31",
          "text": "Filled Roll (x2) 1x luncheon, tomato, lettuce, and mayonnaise / 1x cheese and onion",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices."
      ],
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        [
          "cheap",
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        ],
        [
          "processed",
          "processed"
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        [
          "thin",
          "thin"
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        [
          "slice",
          "slice"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand) A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Belgium"
        },
        {
          "word": "devon"
        },
        {
          "word": "fritz"
        },
        {
          "word": "polony"
        }
      ],
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        "New-Zealand",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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    },
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        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1931, Mildred Wirt (as Carolyn Keene), The Mystery at Lilac Inn (page 4)",
          "text": "Have you had luncheon?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any midday meal; lunch."
      ],
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        [
          "lunch",
          "lunch"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dated) Any midday meal; lunch."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lump of food."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A lump of food."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʌntʃ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʌnʃ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌntʃən"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "lunching"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wǔyàn",
      "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
      "word": "午宴"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gōngzuò wǔcān",
      "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
      "word": "工作午餐"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
      "word": "lounastilaisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
      "word": "jamuan tengah hari"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "almoço"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obed",
      "sense": "formal meal served in the middle of the day — see also lunch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "обед"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "similar product",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices",
      "word": "lauantaimakkara"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "dated term for lunch",
      "word": "puolinen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luncheon"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌntʃən",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌntʃən/2 syllables",
    "en:Meals"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lunching"
      },
      "expansion": "lunching",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lunch"
      },
      "expansion": "lunch",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nuncheon",
        "t": "light snack taken in the afternoon"
      },
      "expansion": "nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "luncheon sausage"
      },
      "expansion": "luncheon sausage",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "luncheon meat"
      },
      "expansion": "luncheon meat",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier lunching, of uncertain origin.\nPossibly related to lunch, q.v. It is unclear which came first. Possibly influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”).\nThe \"sausage\" sense is probably a shortening of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "luncheons",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luncheoning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luncheoned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "luncheoned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "luncheon (third-person singular simple present luncheons, present participle luncheoning, simple past and past participle luncheoned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "lun‧cheon"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lunch"
    },
    {
      "word": "tiffin"
    },
    {
      "word": "dejeuner"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby",
          "text": "In the meantime, while ladies are luncheoning on chicken pie, or coursing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular ceremonies of a London morning in the heart of the season[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat luncheon."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, dated) To eat luncheon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896 May 1, H. P. Robinson, “Digressions. V.—The Convention.”, in The British Journal of Photography, volume XLIII, number 1878, London: Henry Greenwood & Co., […], page 277, column 1",
          "text": "Towns welcomed us in our hundreds; M.P.’s luncheoned us, manufacturers turned out their warehouses, decorated them and feasted us; private families tea’d us on their lawns, but we were so true to our art that we always returned to—“papers!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Public, page 109",
          "text": "This gentleman was presented by Colonel C. E. S. Wood, and was entertained here—wined, dined, tead, breakfasted, coffeed and luncheoned—and we bought his pictures.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, The Stanford Illustrated Review, volume 38, number 13, page 23, column 1",
          "text": "[…] entertained him at the Bohemian Club; Edward D. Kneass, Jr., ’18, extended to him the greeting of the San Francisco Press Club; and Frank J. Taylor, ’18, luncheoned him at the Honolulu Club.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939 February 4, “Detroit”, in Boxoffice, volume 34, number 11, Associated Publications, page 102, column 2",
          "text": "A number of friends of Mrs. H. M. Richey, wife of H. M., luncheoned her on Thursday at the Warden Hotel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 February 21, Norman F. Carroll, “[Class Notes] 09”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47, number 19, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, page 15, column 3",
          "text": "To soften him up, a group of his fellows luncheoned him at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949 February 23, “Broadway”, in Variety, volume 173, number 11, New York, N.Y., page 54, column 2",
          "text": "Mrs. Harry (Sybil) Brand farewell-luncheoned her New York friends Monday (21), before taking off for Paris with John Haskell, representing TWA, on month’s vacation, first time over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Charles H[enry] Baker, Jr., The South American Gentleman’s Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book; Or, Up & Down the Andes with Knife, Fork & Spoon, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., page 66",
          "text": "We won’t try to lie to you for, bro-ther! until that recent noon when Don Fernando Carlés, Number 1 at National City Bank in Buenos Aires, luncheoned us at this fantastic Jockey Club—and invitations to this fantastic block-square brownstone Mansion in Calle Florída are nothing to view lightly—we could take our sting-rays or leave ’em alone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Paramount World, volume 9, page 22",
          "text": "The Legal Department's Richard Colby went off to other pastures, so early this month his associates luncheoned him at Rosoff's, and in the tradition of the profession, all remarks were off the record.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966 September 7, Geo. H. Carver, “Sports Slices”, in The Intelligencer, Belleville, Ont., page 13",
          "text": "There must have been a chip of the blarney stone in the Irish stew the pretty stewardess luncheoned us with, for one quipped.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To serve luncheon to."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To serve luncheon to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʌntʃ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʌnʃ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌntʃən"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-us-luncheon.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "lunching"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to eat luncheon — see also lunch",
      "word": "lounastaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to serve luncheon — see also lunch",
      "word": "tarjota lounas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "luncheon"
}