LUNCH
What does "LUNCH" mean?
A meal eaten in the middle of the day.
Meanings
- The midday meal. We grabbed lunch at the noodle stand near the office.
- To eat the midday meal. They lunched on the terrace whenever the sun held. formal
Did you know?
- The 'free lunch' in 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' was literal: 19th-century American saloons offered a free meal to anyone buying a drink - the salty food just made you buy more. Economist Milton Friedman turned the catch into a 1975 book title.
Word origin
A shortening of 'luncheon' (17th-century 'lunchin', 'a thick piece, hunk'); the modern sense of a midday meal solidified in the 19th century, partly under the spread of fixed working hours.
Remember it
LUNCH sits between breakfast and dinner the way the U sits in the middle of the word - the dip in your day.
A little poem
Noon. The whole office
exhales into one paper
bag of warm leftovers.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my sandwich it was on a break. Now it's having me for lunch.
What it teaches
There is no free lunch - someone, somewhere, always pays; the only choice is whether you know who.
Quick facts
What does LUNCH mean?
A meal eaten in the middle of the day.
Is LUNCH a valid word?
Yes — LUNCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LUNCH?
LUNCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does LUNCH come from?
A shortening of 'luncheon' (17th-century 'lunchin', 'a thick piece, hunk'); the modern sense of a midday meal solidified in the 19th century, partly under the spread of fixed working hours.
What can LUNCH teach us?
There is no free lunch - someone, somewhere, always pays; the only choice is whether you know who.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.