lunchroom
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- noun
- /ˈlʌnʧˌrum/
- US
:
comedor
- At noon, students line up to buy their meals in the lunchroom before heading back to class.
- a school lunchroom
- lunchroom supervision
- lunchroom duty
The door of Henry's lunchroom opened and two men came in.
- The door of Henry's lunchroom opened and two men came in.
- No one wants to see poor kids lined up in a different line in the lunchroom.
- No one leaves that job with a full head of hair because lunchroom bullies steal your hair and use it to tie up the asthma kids.
- And so the military guy said cross your legs and pull them back, kind of grown man spotting you in front of the lunchroom.
Examples
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The staff gathered in the lunchroom to discuss the new office policies over sandwiches.
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We're asking everybody to report to the lunchroom for a company meeting.
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And should we have two different lines in the lunchroom, one for the regular kids and one for the free or reduced cost lunch kids?
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There are name cards at each seat in this lunchroom.
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I ordered fish today in the lunchroom.
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You had a nice view of Manhattan and a clean lunchroom to eat in.
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I spotted you in the lunchroom.
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Within this framework, the lunchroom was the logical place for the finale.
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The social maps and the video allowed the students to understand and reconstruct the lunchroom and other key locations.
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At Longfellow Elementary, there was no gym and no lunchroom for the first semester.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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A place where people serve themselves from a counter and pay before they eat
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A room in a house where people eat meals together
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A small cafe where people buy coffee and light food
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A place like a restaurant or café where people eat
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A large room in a college where many students eat meals
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A place in a school or workplace where people buy and eat food and talk to others
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A space in a home or restaurant for eating meals
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A small simple restaurant that serves coffee and sandwiches at a counter
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A place in a school, factory, or military base where many people eat
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A place where people buy and eat meals, like a restaurant or café
A room where people in the military eat meals together
A part of a train where people eat meals while traveling
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lunchroom joins lunch ('a meal in the middle of the day') and room ('a place' or 'space'). It is the room where people buy or eat lunch at school or work, so it simply means the place for the midday meal.