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brunch

brunch

133 1.9
A late morning meal that combines breakfast and lunch
  • noun
  • /brʌnʧ/
translation icon : 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.