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Lunchroom

Definition: Lunchroom

Lunchroom

Noun

1. A restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lunchroom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)


Crosswords: Lunchroom

Specialty definitions using "lunchroom": coffee-urn attendant, COUNTER ATTENDANT, LUNCHROOM OR COFFEE SHOPfountain dispenser, FOUNTAIN SERVERice cream dispensersoda clerk, soda dispenser. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lunchroom

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lunchroom Manners (1960)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lunchroom

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tabletop Football: A Guide to the Classic Lunchroom Sports (Book and Leather Tabletop Football) (reference)

  • The Lunchroom of Doom (Werewolf Club, 2) (reference)

  • The Worm Cafe, Mid-Scale Vermicomposting of Lunchroom Wastes (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lunchroom

Photos:
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Photo Album: Lunchroom

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Lunchroom buddies, New York City, 1931 / Walker Evans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Civil rights activists occupying a lunchroom counter during a sit-in. Credit: Library of Congress.

Noon-day siesta in front of a lunchroom at Helmsburg, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lunchroom, Aberdeen, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

New lunchroom across from construction job on the Newton D. Baker Village, defense housing project near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Clinton, Iowa. Engineer Johnny Johnson having his dinner at the depot lunchroom. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School. Lunchroom. Students usually bring lunch from home and buy one or two things in cafeteria. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fellheimer & Wagner. Model, turnpike lunchroom I. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Jersey Turnpike. Detail, lunchroom 8N. Credit: Library of Congress.

Girl Scout Building, 3rd Ave. and 51st St., New York City. Lunchroom. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lunchroom

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lunchroom

13

lunchroom table

7

lunchroom furniture

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lunchroom

Language Translations for "lunchroom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kafeteri (Luncheonette). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حجرة الغذاء. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

закусвалня (snack bar). (various references)

   

French

  

salle manger. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εστιατόριο ελαφρών φαγητών. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מז ון (buffet, canteen, snack bar). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

étkező (diner, fanny). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unchroomlay

   

Russian 

  

закусочная (bistro, diner, eatery, food shop, luncheonette, snack bar, tavern, tea-shop). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

snek-bar (luncheonette, snack bar), sala za ručak. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ห้องอาหารมื้อเที่ยง (luncheonette). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yemek odası (dinette, dining room). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lunchroom

Derivations

Words beginning with "lunchroom": lunchrooms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Lunchroom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lenchmob, lonhro. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Lunchroom"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lunchroom" (pronounced lu"nkhruw'm)
3-r uw' mbackroom, ballroom, barroom, bathroom, bedroom, boardroom, bridegroom, classroom, cloakroom, courtroom, darkroom, elbowroom, headroom, newsroom, playroom, restroom, schoolroom, stockroom, storeroom, sunroom, toolroom, washroom, workroom.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lunchroom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-l-m-n-o-o-r-u"

-3 letters: chromo, colour, column, honour, moloch, ormolu, uncool, unmoor.

-4 letters: cholo, churl, churn, clour, colon, color, cornu, croon, honor, humor, locum, lunch, lurch, mohur, mooch, moron, mouch, mourn, mucor, mucro, mulch, munch.

-5 letters: chon, chum, clon, coho, cool, coon, corm, corn, culm, curl, curn, holm, homo, horn, hour, hurl, loch, loco, loom, loon, lorn.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-l-m-n-o-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: lunchrooms.

 

+2 letters: homonuclear.

 

+5 letters: hemoglobinuric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lunchroom


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 75 6E 63 68 72 6F 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..-    -.    -.-.    ....    .-.    ---    ---    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#117 &#110 &#99 &#104 &#114 &#111 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0075 006E 0063 0068 0072 006F 006F 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

468780697484818179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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Arabies, arabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic;
Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French;
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Jood, Hebreeus, Israeliet, hebraishte, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏العبرية, Hebréu, иврит, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, староеврейски език, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejka, hebrejec, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, hebraiskt, juutalainen, hébreu, Hebrieusk, hebräisch, hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברית, עברי, zsidó, héber, izraelita, Eabhrais, ebraico, ebreo, ヘブライ語 , ヘブライ", Ewagh, Ew, Ewnish, hudiu, hebraico, hebreu, ebrèu, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврейский, еврей, древнееврейский, древнееврейский язык, Eperu, hibru, hebreo, dyu, Myahudi, Yahudi, hebreiska, hebreisk, jude, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, іврит, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ, Hebraeg, Hebreaidd, for Hebrew;
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Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
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Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;