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单词 lunch
释义

lunch

[ luhnch ]
/ lʌntʃ /
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noun

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.

verb (used without object)

to eat lunch: We lunched quite late today.

verb (used with object)

to provide lunch for: They lunched us in regal fashion.

Idioms for lunch

    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.

Origin of lunch

First recorded in 1585–95; short for luncheon

OTHER WORDS FROM lunch

luncher, nounlunchless, adjectivepre·lunch, adjective, noun

Words nearby lunch

lunate bone, lunatic, lunatic asylum, lunatic fringe, lunation, lunch, lunchbox, lunch counter, luncheon, luncheon club, luncheonette
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British Dictionary definitions for lunch

lunch
/ (lʌntʃ) /

noun

a meal eaten during the middle of the day
Caribbean (among older people) mid-afternoon tea

verb

(intr) to eat lunch
(tr) to provide or buy lunch for

Derived forms of lunch

luncher, noun

Word Origin for lunch

C16: probably short form of luncheon
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with lunch

lunch

see eat someone alive (someone's lunch); free lunch; lose one's lunch; out to (lunch).

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