combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning
food noun (foods and drinks)
brunches
British student slang merger of breakfast and lunch. To be fashionable nowadays...
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a meal eaten between breakfast and lunch, and is a substitute for both these meals. The word is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch. The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote that the term was coined in... (43 of 1215 words, 4 images)
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a combination of breakfast and lunch. | Brunch may also refer to: "Brunch" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2006 episode of the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother | Brunch (band), a Korean rock band, featured in There she is!! | Brunch (album), an EP by ... (45 of 112 words, 6 definitions)
a meal eaten late in the morning, combining breakfast with lunch (11 of 472 words, 9 usage examples, pronunciation)
a late morning meal eaten instead of breakfast and lunch (10 of 65 words, 2 usage examples, pronunciation)
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, replacing both meals, and often consisting of some foods that would normally be eaten at breakfast and some foods that would normally be eaten at lunch. | To eat brunch. (42 of 47 words, 2 definitions)
a meal that combines breakfast and lunch and is usually served in the late morning (15 of 43 words, 1 usage example, pronunciation)
a meal usually taken late in the morning that combines a late breakfast and an early lunch (17 of 41 words, pronunciation)
A meal typically eaten late in the morning as a combination of a late breakfast and an early lunch. (19 of 28 words, pronunciation)
a late first meal of the day that takes the place of both breakfast and lunch | to eat brunch (19 of 27 words, 2 definitions, pronunciation)
a meal eaten in the late morning; a combination of breakfast and lunch (13 of 26 words, 1 usage example, pronunciation)
a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch. | to eat brunch: "They brunch at 11:00 on Sunday". (18 of 24 words, 2 definitions, pronunciation)
a meal that combines breakfast and lunch, eaten late in the morning (12 of 31 words, pronunciation)
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First use: 1896
Origin: British student slang merger of breakfast and lunch. To be fashionable nowadays we must 'brunch'. Truly an excellent portmanteau word, ... (21 of 48 etymology words)
First use: late 19th century
Origin: blend of "breakfast" and "lunch"
First use: 20th century
Origin: from br(eakfast) + (l)unch
Origin: Blend of breakfast and lunch
Origin: "breakfast" + "lunch".
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Origin: Middle English brekfast: breken, to break; see "break" + faste, a fast (from Old Norse fasta, to fast; see past- in Indo-European roots).
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Origin: Short for "luncheon".
First use: Late 19th century
Origin: Blend of breakfast + lunch
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