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🥪 A midday meal 🥪 To eat midday 🍽️ To give midday meal
to lunch

to lunch

9 2.0
To give someone a meal in the middle of the day
  • verb
  • /lʌntʃ/
translation icon : invitar a almorzar
  • You'll have to lunch with me.
  • invited us to lunch
  • lunch together
  • make me lunch

Examples

  • Thank you, I'm gonna make you lunch.

    Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

  • I promised mother i'd lunch with her at the beach club.

    After Office Hours (1935)

  • From today, you'll lunch in my office.

    The Red Shoes (1948)

  • - We lunched at the club.

    Island in the Sun (1957)

  • We could have lunched together and had a good gossip.

    Brief Encounter (1945)

  • "I take other lawyers to lunch regularly, but they take me to lunch also," Jenkins says.

    Academic text (1997)

  • All the children who lunched at school were given bottles of milk for which our parents paid a small fee each year.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Two women, lunching together, had tried hard to keep their eyes averted.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Agnes Flack had walked around with Harold Pickering in the morning, and they lunched together after the game.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I promised to lunch with my friend at the new Italian restaurant downtown.

Idioms

to eat my lunch
  • Informal
1 9.0

To beat someone and gain an advantage over them in competition

to eat someone's lunch
  • Informal
1 8.6

To beat someone in business by taking their customers and sales

to launch one's lunch
  • Slang
9.9

To throw up food you just ate

Phrasal Verbs

to grab lunch
  • Informal
14 2.6

Eat lunch quickly without planning

Compounds

free lunch
  • Informal
17 4.2

Something offered without obvious cost but that often has hidden costs

lunch meeting
5 2.1

A meeting during lunch to talk about work

lunch period
4 1.0

A regular time during the day for eating lunch at school or work

business lunch
4 2.8

A meal, usually at a restaurant, where people discuss work matters

lunch pail
  • US
3 2.5

A box with a handle for carrying lunch to work or school

lunch meat
  • US
2 1.7

Cold sliced cooked meat used in sandwiches or as a snack

three-martini lunch
  • Archaic
1 8.8

A long business lunch where people drink several martinis and relax

ploughman's lunch
  • UK
6.4

A cold meal of bread, cheese, and salad, sometimes with pickles or cold meat

How Generous

to treat
347 1.7
to lunch
9 2.0

Surface Forms

lunch infinitive
lunched past
lunched past participle
lunching present participle
lunches third person singular

Etymology

Lunch meaning to provide a midday meal comes from the idea of offering a luncheon to someone. So to lunch someone is to give or pay for their midday meal.