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# lunch

«lunch» in Mova's school dictionary: **the meal you eat in the middle of the day** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lunch, lunches); verb (lunch, lunches, lunched, lunching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lunch is the meal you eat in the middle of the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#m1)

2) Lunch is also the time when it is eaten: see you at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#m2)

3) To lunch is to eat lunch (a formal word). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#m3)

4) A packed lunch is food you take from home in a box or bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths it is a meal with a price, a count of children, or a time marker in a story: a price per lunch × days is a rate, and «after lunch» marks the order of events. In everyday school life: lunchbox, lunch break, school lunch, the lunch line, the cafeteria or canteen. Health: a good lunch has fruit or vegetables, some protein and water.

### examples

- Lunch costs 4 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x1)
- She buys lunch 5 days a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x2)
- 20 children brought a packed lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x3)
- After lunch he had 3 cookies left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x4)
- What's in your lunchbox today? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x5)
- We play football at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x6)
- Lunch is at half past twelve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x7)
- Grandpa took us out to lunch on Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x8)
- Wash your hands before lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x9)
- For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lunch/#x10)

### note

Usually no «a» or «the»: have lunch, at lunch (but «a big lunch», «a packed lunch»). Plural: «lunches». In some homes in the UK, Ireland and Australia the midday meal is called «dinner», and the evening one «tea». Maths: a price per lunch × days. Trap: a week of school lunches is usually 5 days.

### In the corpora

- [The Mole, full of lunch and pride, thinks rowing looks easy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/1/)
- [Toad «diplomatically»: «Come along in, and have some lunch ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/39/)
- [At lunch the poor Rat has to tell the Badger and the Mole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/47-willows-ch6-part3-toad-tricks-the-rat/9/)
- [Hungry, he walks into the Red Lion inn in a little town and orders the best lunch they have.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/2/)
- [Over lunch Toad tells all his adventures as if they were splendid fun, and the Rat grows more and more grave and silent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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