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Definition: Lunchtime |
LunchtimeNoun1. The time for eating lunch; "he observed a regular lunchtime". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lunchtime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Synonym: LunchtimeSynonym: lunch period (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
Clever | I think if I have a good breakfast, I could go without food for the rest of the day. I think that until about lunchtime. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bozo's Cartoon Circus Lunchtime Show! (1961) The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine (2002) Lunchtime on the Lusitania (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lunchtime, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lunchtime for cotton hoers. Mississippi Delta. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cotton pickers' lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lunchtime at the nursery school at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp for migratory farm workers. At Odell, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arecibo (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Lunchtime in a sugar field. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Lunchtime" by Gábor Suhajda Commentary: "Bee on a flower." | "What_could_it_be" by archgimp Commentary: "I took this one lunchtime wandering around the backstreets - but something else much more interesting happened in the afternoon and I completely forgot what this was - or where I took it. I think the texture could be useful for something though - so here" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Lunchtime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Lunchtime" is used about 913 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) | 99.78% | 911 | 7,876 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 913 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lunchtime": at lunchtime. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lunchtime makeovers | 9 |
lunchtime | 6 |
lunchtime makeover | 4 |
bet lunchtime | 3 |
lunchtime relaxation | 3 |
liposuction lunchtime | 2 |
face lift lunchtime | 2 |
lunchtime peel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lunchtime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 午餐时间. (various references) | |
French | heures du déjeuner. (various references) | |
German | mittags (at lunchtime, at midday, at noon, noontime). (various references) | |
Greek | ώρα για μεσημεριανό. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ebédidő (lunchhour, mealtime). (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, luncheon, 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). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ランチタイム . (various references) | |
Korean | 점심 시간. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unchtimelay.(various references) | |
Russian | обеденное время (dinnertime). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lunchtime": lunchtimes. (additional references) | |
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"Lunchtime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: luncthime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lunchtime" (pronounced lu"nkhtī'm) |
| 3 | -t ī' m | airtime, anytime, bedtime, nighttime, noontime, overtime, pastime, peacetime, ragtime, centime, daytime, dinnertime, downtime, flextime, halftime, lifetime, longtime, maritime, mealtime, meantime, schooltime, showtime, sometime, springtime, summertime, wartime, wintertime. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: cutline, linecut, tunicle. | |
-3 letters: centum, client, ethnic, helium, incult, inhume, lectin, lentic, leucin, lichen, lucent, luetic, lutein, minuet, minute, mutine, neumic, nuclei, telium, unhelm. | |
-4 letters: centu, chiel, chile, chime, chine, chute, clime, cline, culet, culti, cumin, cutie, cutin, elint, ethic, hemic, hemin, hilum, humic, ileum, inlet, letch, licht, limen, linum, lithe, lumen, lunch. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: lunchtimes. | |
+2 letters: multiethnic. | |
+3 letters: multichannel. | |
+4 letters: hermeneutical, multibranched, multichannels. | |
+5 letters: unemphatically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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