brunch
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a…A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Translations
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Examples
25 sentencesWhat time is brunch?
О котрій годині бранч? — deniko
Let's have brunch together.
Tom met Mary for brunch.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
Brunch
бранчbranč, по́здний за́втракpózdnij závtrak
- combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning
Origin
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the UniBlend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
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Forms
plural: brunchesWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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