Lunchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /lʌnt͡ʃ/, /lʌnʃ/, [lʌ̃nt͡ʃ]
• 韻: -ʌntʃ

名詞

lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)

1. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.

2. (cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.
3. (Minnesota, US) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.

   After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.

4. (obsolete) A thin piece or hunk (of bread, meat, etc.)

同意語

• (midday meal): luncheon (formal); nones (obsolete)

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動詞

lunch (third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)

1. (intransitive) To eat lunch.

   I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.

   • 1934, Cole Porter, Miss Otis Regrets:

     Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.

   • 1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291:

     The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady.

2. (transitive) To treat to lunch.
   • 1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities:

     We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.

派生語

関連する語

• luncheonette

参考

• breakfast
• dine, dinner
• supper

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