lunchtimen.
/ˈlʌn(t)ʃtʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈlən(t)ʃˌtaɪm/ The time at which lunch is eaten. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] > lunch-time
midday mealtimec1400
luncheon-time1823
lunchtime1859
dinner camp1925
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 10 Oct. (1954) III. 180 He can't take us wrongly any day either at 1 o'clock, (lunch-time) or at half past 5 (dinner).
1866 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 5 He..left me at lunch-time.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 276 It was on the right side of lunch-time.
1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica xiv. 290 Capes came into the laboratory at lunch-time.
1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 389/2 The lunch-time programme arranged by Mr. Christopher Stone.
1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music 235 Kisenga, an African musician..is seen playing this work in a reconstruction of the war-time National Gallery lunch-time concerts.
1963 Times 22 May 9/5 We'll be at the coast by lunchtime and the children can't wait for a swim and neither can I.
1968 J. Bingham I love, I Kill xv. 222 Have me thrown out, boyo. If you hurry up, it'll make the lunchtime editions.
1971 D. Crystal Linguistics i. 11 There is at least one teachers' common-room..where problems of etymology..provide the normal, lunch-time gossip.
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