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lunch

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English

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Etymology

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Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumable 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 simulate 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”).[1]

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Noun

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lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)

  2. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  3. (cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  4. (Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
    After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
  5. (obsolete) A think piece or hunk (of bread, meat, etc.)

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Verb

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

  2. (intransitive) To eat lunch.
    I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
    • 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.
  3. (transitive) To treat to lunch.

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References

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  1. ^ “lunch, n.2.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023.

Chinese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English lunch.

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lunch

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

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lunch

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to eat lunch; to have lunch
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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English lunch.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lʏnʃ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: lunch

Noun

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

  1. a lunch, a meal eaten around noon

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lunch

  1. inflection of lunchen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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French

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Etymology

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From English lunch.

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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

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English lunch.

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lunch m inan

  1. lunch (meal around midday)

Declension

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

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  • lunch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English lunch.

Noun

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lunch m (plural lunches)

  1. lunch

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From English lunch.

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lunch c

  1. a lunch, a meal eaten about noon

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Declension of lunch
nominative genitive
singular indefinite lunch lunchs
definite lunchen lunchens
plural indefinite luncher lunchers
definite luncherna lunchernas
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