a meal eaten during the middle of the day
- (intransitive)
to eat lunch - (transitive)
to provide or buy lunch for
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
lunch /lʌntʃ/USA pronunciation
n.
v. [no object]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner;
luncheon: [countable]a lunch of sandwiches.[uncountable]went out for lunch.
v. [no object]
- to eat lunch.
- Idioms out to lunch, [Slang.]in a daze;
not attentive or aware.
lunch
(lunch),USA pronunciation n.
v.i.
v.t.
lunch′er, n.
lunch′less, adj.
- a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner;
luncheon. - any light meal or snack.
- a restaurant or lunchroom:Let's eat at the dairy lunch.
- Idioms out to lunch, [Slang.]not paying attention or tending to business;
negligent:You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.
v.i.
- to eat lunch:We lunched quite late today.
v.t.
- to provide lunch for:They lunched us in regal fashion.
- short for luncheon 1585–95
lunch′less, adj.
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'lunch' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Burroughs
- Dutch lunch
- Naked Lunch, The
- appetite
- arm
- beat
- bento
- blend
- box lunch
- break
- brown-bag
- brunch
- buffet
- continue
- coronation chicken
- cover
- crib
- dinner
- do
- done
- down
- déjeuner
- déjeuner à la fourchette
- eat
- empty
- fork luncheon
- free lunch
- fry cook
- halt
- hash house
- hassle
- hightail
- hot plate
- hour
- like
- lunch counter
- lunchbox
- luncheon
- luncheon meat
- lunchhook
- lunchmeat
- lunchpail
- lunchroom
- lunchtime
- lunchwagon
- lunchy
- meal
- mint
- mist
- nooner