lunchnoun [ C or U ]
uk/lʌntʃ/us/lʌntʃ/A1 a meal that is eaten in the middle of the day:
What's for lunch?
UK We had a pub lunch.
I'm sorry, Joanna isn't here at the moment, she's (gone) out to/gone to lunch.
We must do lunch sometime (= have lunch together).
More examples
- Why don't we have lunch together on Friday?
- He managed to eat a big lunch despite having eaten an enormous breakfast.
- Shall I heat up some soup for lunch?
- We enjoyed a leisurely picnic lunch on the lawn.
- We stopped at a roadside café for lunch.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Meals & parts of meals
- accompaniment
- afternoon tea
- afters
- amuse-bouche
- antipasto
- dinner
- dinner party
- dinner time
- elevenses
- English breakfast
- picnic
- plate meal
- ploughman's lunch
- postprandial
- pot luck
- smorgasbord
- teatime
- tiffin
- TV dinner
- working lunch/breakfast
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Idiom(s)
be out to lunch
lunchverb [ I ]
uk/lʌntʃ/us/lʌntʃ/to eat lunch:
I'm lunching with Giles.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Meals & parts of meals
- accompaniment
- afternoon tea
- afters
- amuse-bouche
- antipasto
- dinner
- dinner party
- dinner time
- elevenses
- English breakfast
- picnic
- plate meal
- ploughman's lunch
- postprandial
- pot luck
- smorgasbord
- teatime
- tiffin
- TV dinner
- working lunch/breakfast
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Eating