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# brunch

«brunch» in Mova's school dictionary: **A meal eaten in the late morning instead of breakfast and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (brunch, brunches); verb (brunch, brunches, brunched — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

A meal eaten in the late morning instead of breakfast and lunch, often bigger than breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life brunch is a weekend treat with pancakes, eggs, bacon, avocado toast or waffles, often at a café. In English lessons "brunch" is a good example of a blend word, made from "breakfast" and "lunch" (like smog = smoke + fog). Phrases: have brunch, Sunday brunch, go out for brunch.

### examples

- We had brunch at the café on Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#x1)
- Brunch is breakfast and lunch rolled into one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#x2)
- For brunch we had pancakes and eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#x3)
- "Brunch" is made by joining "breakfast" and "lunch". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#x4)
- Mum loves a lazy Sunday brunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#x5)
- We brunched at eleven and then went to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/#x6)

### note

Countable or uncountable: "have brunch", "two brunches". A blend word (portmanteau). The verb is informal.

### In the corpora

- [A blend is a new word made from parts of two words, like spork, brunch and smog.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brunch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brunch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.