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brunch

brunch

133 1.9
A late morning meal that combines breakfast and lunch
  • noun
  • /brʌnʧ/
: brunch
  • We're going to have brunch for Father's Day.
  • a Sunday brunch
  • eat brunch
  • brunch and dinner

I have to go to breakfast or I guess brunch with my roommate Alana.

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Examples

  • And I want to be able to eat brunch with my friends.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • But we're about to go and get some brunch and there's this place I love to go to.

  • And this one, I like Sunday brunch and I like this one too.

  • So she was at a brunch with a friend.

  • I actually have to go to brunch with my friends.

  • Lovely brunch, I must say.

  • Went to a 4th of July brunch at the country club.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • We're all going out for brunch, which I'm super excited about.

  • It's Sunday now and we've come out for brunch too.

  • We are going to a lovely brunch at the new café this Sunday.

Compounds

brunch coat
  • Archaic
9.0

A short informal housecoat women wear at home over other clothes

How Filling

dinner
∞ 1.0
brunch
133 1.9
to lunch
33 1.0
breakfast
∞ 1.0
snack
471 1.0

Surface Forms

brunch singular
brunches plural

Morphology

brunch = breakfast + lunch (transparent) = breakfast + lunch

A clear portmanteau/blend of 'breakfast' and 'lunch' whose meaning (a combined meal) is directly deducible from its components.

Etymology

Brunch was made by joining breakfast and lunch, so it means a meal 'between breakfast and lunch' usually eaten in the late morning.