Lunch
nounA meal eaten in the middle of the day.
How to spell lunch
5 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce lunch
What does lunch mean?
- nounA meal eaten in the middle of the day.
- verbTo eat the midday meal.
Lunch in a sentence
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noun
She packed a sandwich for lunch before leaving for work.
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verb
The managers usually lunch together on Fridays.
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noun
The team met at a cafe for lunch to discuss the project.
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verb
They prefer to lunch early to avoid the busy period.
Where does lunch come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word lunch appears in English in the early 1800s as a shortened form of luncheon, which itself had been in use since the late 1500s. Luncheon probably grew out of an older word, lunch, meaning a thick piece or hunk of food, especially of bread or cheese, and that early sense may be linked to the dialect word lump. Over time the noun came to mean the light midday meal eaten between breakfast and dinner, and the clipped form lunch quickly overtook the longer luncheon in everyday speech. The spelling is refreshingly phonetic, with the final 'ch' simply spelling the sound you hear. Because there is no silent letter or doubled consonant to trip over, lunch is one of the more reliably spelled words in the daily vocabulary.
How the word is built
- lunch (a single root; shortened from earlier 'luncheon')
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