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Definition: Luncheon |
LuncheonNoun1. A midday meal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "luncheon" was first used: 1580. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
General | Midday meal; sometimes with speeches or presentations during conferences of professional associations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Luncheon (Welsh, llonc or llivno, a gulp; llyncu, to swallow at a gulp.) The notion of its derivation from the Spanish once, eleven, is borrowed from the word nuncheon, i.e. nón-mete, a noon repast. Hence Hudibras: "When, laying by their swords and truncheons, They took their breakfasts, or their nuncheons." Book i. 1. lines 345, 346. In Letter Book G, folio iv. (27 Edward II.), donations of drink to workmen are called noncchenche. (Riley: Memorials of London.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: LuncheonSynonyms: dejeuner (n), lunch (n), tiffin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Luncheon |
| English words defined with "luncheon": Nunchion ♦ Spam. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "luncheon": COOK, LARDER ♦ garde manger ♦ Prayer-book Parade. (references) |
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Screenplays | Think of it, man, poolside tanning, bargain matinees, plus I know a couple of strip clubs that have a fabulous luncheon buffet (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Luncheon Date (1963) An Animated Luncheon (1900) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Caption: Glenmont, Interior, First Floor, Luncheon Tables Set up for Meeting of Federation of Women's Clubs; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {12.425/2} (jpg). |  | Caption: Edison '73' Birthday Luncheon, Edison Family Members, the Edison Pioneers, Including Lewis Latimer, in Front of Bldg. 5; West Orange, NJ; February 11, 1920; {14.110/31} (jpg). |
 | Medical Society of the District of Columbia : Third Luncheon Round Table for Malpractice Discussion. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | At a luncheon meeting, circa 1943. Present are (from left to right): General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Air Forces; Admiral William D. Leahy, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; and General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Souvenir photograph of attendees at a luncheon given by Admiral Nagano for foreign military and naval attaches and their assistants, at the Tokyo Naval Club on 6 May 1940. Those present are (seated in front row, left to right): |  | President Franklin Roosevelt at microphones at luncheon given for him, Golden Gate Exposition, Treasure Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Churchills go to lunch. Boston: a large crowd greets Winston Churchill (left) and Mrs. Churchill (right of Churchill) as they arrive for a private luncheon at the Odd Volumes Club, April 1, in Boston. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Girls' luncheon, Natural Food Conservatory, Niagara, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Natural Food Company conservatory, girl's luncheon, Niagara, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Church social and luncheon, Bristol, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Next day, however, as we chatted on over the remains of luncheon, I ventured to put the momentous question |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Luncheon Tuesday, Colmado Hotel |
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Travel | Barbados | Business hours are generally from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. Luncheon meetings are common, but breakfast meetings are not. (references) |
Australia | Luncheon and breakfast meetings are common, and Australians do not typically schedule business functions on weekends, which are dedicated to family and friends. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The AmCham sponsors monthly luncheon meetings with a featured speaker, intermittent breakfast meetings with visiting U.S. officials and other guests, and occasional cocktail get-togethers. (references) | |
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| "Luncheon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.43% of the time. "Luncheon" is used about 351 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.43% | 349 | 15,301 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 351 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "luncheon": after luncheon ♦ buffet luncheon ♦ luncheon bar ♦ luncheon meat ♦ luncheon meeting ♦ luncheon voucher. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "luncheon": luncheon-parties, luncheon-party, luncheon-takers, luncheon-train. | |
Ending with "luncheon": pre-luncheon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "luncheon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | drekë zyrtare, drekë (dinner, lunch, Luncheonette, nooning). (various references) | |
Arabic | غداء (dine, lunch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | официален обяд. (various references) | |
Chinese | 午餐 (lunch). (various references) | |
Danish | frokost (lunch). (various references) | |
Dutch | lunch (lunch, snack), middagmaal (dinner, midday meal). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناهار (Dinner, Lunch, Meat, Nooning), غذای مفصل . (various references) | |
Finnish | lounas (lunch, snack). (various references) | |
French | déjeuner (lunch). (various references) | |
German | mittagessen (dinner, lunch, lunches, midday meal, tiffin, tiffins). (various references) | |
Greek | μεσημεριανό γεύμα (lunch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ebéd (chow, dinner, lunch). (various references) | |
Italian | pranzo (dinner, lunch, repast), colazione (breakfast, collation, dinner, lunch, midday, midday meal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ランゲルハンス島 (athletic-style shirt, bag, inside-the-park home run, isle of Langerhans, knapsack, lance, Lancel, lancer, land, landing, landing bahn, landmark, LANDSAT, landscape, lantern, lanthanum, Lanvin, launch, launcher, laundry, lingerie, lunch, lunch set, lunchtime, lunchtime concert, meeting, pensioneer, random, random sampling, rumble seat, runner, runner's high, running, running cost, running home run, running homer, running stock, running vest, run-through, runtime, satchel with back straps, tank top), 昼餐 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ランチョン , ちゅうさ". (various references) | |
Korean | 오찬. (various references) | |
Manx | tiggad kirbyl (luncheon voucher). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uncheonlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | almoço (dinner, lunch, midday meal, tiffin). (various references) | |
Romanian | lunch oficial, prânz (lunch, midday meal, noontime), dejun oficial. (various references) | |
Russian | обед (brunch, dinner, lunch), завтрак (breakfast, brekker, brunch, lunch, morning meal), легкий завтрак (buffet luncheon, light meal). (various references) | |
Scottish | mìr (a bit, part, piece; luncheon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svečani ručak, mali ručak. (various references) | |
Spanish | almuerzo (dinner, lunch, snack). (various references) | |
Swedish | lunch (lunch). (various references) | |
Thai | งานเลี้ยงอาหารกลางวัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | öğle yemeği (lunch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | снідати (breakfast, have lunch, lunch), офіційний сніданок, легкий сніданок. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiệc trưa. (various references) | |
Welsh | byrbryd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | lonja. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "luncheon": luncheonette, luncheonettes, luncheons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "luncheon": preluncheon. (additional references) | |
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"Luncheon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gutcheon, launchen, leancharn, Lenchmob, Lichedom, Litchdon, luchian, Luchino, Luchon, Lunken, lynchen, nuncheon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "luncheon" (pronounced lu"nkhun) |
| 5 | -u" n kh u n | truncheon. |
| 4 | -n kh u n | abstention, circumvention, contravention, inattention, intention, intervention, Nonintervention. |
| 3 | -kh u n | bastion, combustion, congestion, digestion, exhaustion, fortune, indigestion, ingestion, kitchen, misfortune, question, suggestion, urchin. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-l-n-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: nucleon. | |
-2 letters: cohune, louche, nuncle. | |
-3 letters: clone, lunch, nonce, ounce, uncle. | |
-4 letters: chon, clon, clue, cole, cone, conn, echo, enol, helo, hole, hone, lech, leno, loch, lone, luce, lune, neon, noel, none, noun, once, ouch, unco. | |
-5 letters: cel, col, con, cue, ecu, eon, hen, hoe, hon, hue, hun, leu, noh, nun, ole, one. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-l-n-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: luncheons. | |
+3 letters: preluncheon, punchinello. | |
+4 letters: hallucinogen, luncheonette, noncrushable, nonscheduled, punchinellos, unchronicled. | |
+5 letters: hallucinogens, housecleaning, luncheonettes, unchlorinated, underclothing. | |
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