lunch

Other forms of lunch

plural

lunches·

past tense

lunched·

present participle

lunching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lunch

What does lunch mean?

lunch means "take the midday meal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lunch?

lunch has 1 syllable: lunch. In IPA it is /ˈlʌntʃ/.

What is another word for lunch?

Close synonyms include luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lunch a common word?

lunch is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.