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to brunch

to brunch

5 2.6
To eat a late morning meal that combines breakfast and lunch
  • verb
  • /brʌnʧ/
translation icon : hacer brunch
  • We're going to brunch.
  • inviting you to brunch
  • brunch on Sunday
  • going to brunch

Examples

  • Let's go get brunch and have a fun Sunday.

  • About to sit down to brunch.

  • Do you think you could babysit for a few hours while Kelly goes out to brunch with some friends?

  • How about we stick to the plan, do dinner at my dad's house tonight and brunch at your parents' tomorrow?

  • I've invited them to brunch

  • Scott's taking me to brunch at the Hunt Club, so I just wanted to say goodbye.

  • He had taken Bobby out to brunch the Sunday following their first dinner together.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • I'm going to brunch with Finlay and the wrong David.

  • He told me he'd need to bring his laptop to brunch to resolve the issue.

    Blog text (19)
  • Let's go get brunch and have a fun Sunday.

Compounds

brunch coat
  • Archaic
9.0

A short informal housecoat women wear at home over other clothes

How Filling

to dine
  • Formal
100 1.3
to brunch
5 2.6
to lunch
33 1.0
to breakfast
14 1.0
to snack
27 1.0

Surface Forms

brunch infinitive
brunched past
brunched past participle
brunching present participle
brunches third person singular

Etymology

Brunch as a verb simply means to eat that meal; to 'brunch' is to have a late-morning meal that mixes breakfast and lunch.