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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.

   • 1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:

     “Oh, you mustn’t dream of going home without your tea,” cried Anne in distress. “I’ll get it right off—I’ll go and put the tea down this very minute.” “I must go home,” repeated Diana, stupidly but determinedly. “Let me get you a lunch anyhow,” implored Anne. “Let me give you a bit of fruit-cake and some of the cherry preserves. […]”

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.

   • 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.

   • 1934, Cole Porter, Miss Otis Regrets:

     Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today.

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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