Lunch
[lʌn(t)ʃ] or [lʌntʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a midday meal.
(verb.) take the midday meal; 'At what time are you lunching?'.
(verb.) provide a midday meal for; 'She lunched us well'.
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Definition
(n.) A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
(v. i.) To take luncheon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Luncheon.
v. n. Take a lunch.
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Definition
n. a slight repast between breakfast and dinner—also Lunch′eon.—v.i. to take lunch.—n. Lunch′eon-bar a counter at a restaurant where luncheons are served.
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Examples
- It was a part, at once of Mrs. Sparsit's dignity and service, not to lunch. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The lunch was soon brought, but it remained for some time on the table. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- After getting our lunch and upon reaching the sidewalk, Borst opened his mouth, and said: 'That's a great place; a plate of cakes, a cup of coffee, and a Russian bath, for ten cents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Cold meat will do capitally for a lunch, which is the light in which Mr. Lennox will most likely look upon a two o'clock dinner. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Or is it too close to lunch? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After lunch Ferguson went back to her hotel. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Come to lunch! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Sight-seeing from morning till night, stopping for nice lunches in the gay _cafes_, and meeting with all sorts of droll adventures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The operators there had been much annoyed by an army of cockroaches that used to march across the table where they put their lunches and make a raid on the sandwiches and pies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In a very short time the invading army had met its Waterloo, and the lunches were safe from any further attack. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That is all I learned about Turkish lunches. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He had lunched with the Wellands, hoping afterward to carry off May for a walk in the Park. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I lunched there and saw Casaubon's library, and that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We rested and lunched, and came on to this place, Ain Mellahah (the boys call it Baldwinsville. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We lunched, rested, chatted, smoked our pipes an hour, and then mounted and moved on. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was last seen at Mouquin's famous old French restaurant on Fulton Street, New York, where he lunched with one of the authors of this book and the late Luther Stieringer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Letterblair, who lunched on a sandwich and tea, dined deliberately and deeply, and insisted on his guest's doing the same. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Had he lunched, and if so, upon what? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Prime Minister is lunching with me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Think of Grace Stepney's satisfaction if she came in and found us lunching on cold mutton and tea! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Lily remained at home, lunching and dining alone with her aunt, who complained of flutterings of the heart, and talked icily on general topics. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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