brunch

Blend of breakfast +‎ lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.

• IPA^(key): /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/, /bɹʌnʃ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

brunch (countable and uncountable, plural brunches)

1. A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, 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!

   Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.

   • April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus; Rich Moore, director, “The Front”, in The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):

     I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

• brunch word

• dunch
• linner
• lupper
• brinner
• brupper
• dinfast

brunch (third-person singular simple present brunches, present participle brunching, simple past and past participle brunched)

1. To eat brunch.

• brunch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English brunch.

• IPA^(key): /brɔnsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnɕ]

brunch c (singular definite brunchen, plural indefinite bruncher)

1. brunch

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /brɔnˀsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnˀɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnˀɕ]

brunch

1. imperative of brunche

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʏnʃ/

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• Hyphenation: brunch

Borrowed from English brunch.

brunch m (plural brunchen)

1. A brunch.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brunch

1. first-person singular present indicative of brunchen
2. imperative of brunchen

Borrowed from English brunch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbruns/, [ˈbruns̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑntʃ/, [ˈbrɑn̪t̪ʃ]

brunch

1. (rare) brunch

• brunssi

Borrowed from English brunch.

• IPA^(key): /bʁœnʃ/, (Quebec) /bʁɔnʃ/

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brunch m (plural brunches)

1. brunch

• bruncher

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

brunch m (invariable)

1. brunch

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

• IPA^(key): /brant͡ʂ/

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• Rhymes: -ant͡ʂ
• Syllabification: brunch

brunch m inan

1. brunch

• brunch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• brunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

brunch m (plural brunches)

1. brunch (meal eaten later than breakfast and earlier than lunch)

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

brunch n (plural brunch-uri)

1. brunch

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾant͡ʃ/ [ˈbɾãnʲt͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -antʃ

brunch m (plural brunchs)

1. brunch

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “brunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From English brunch.

• IPA^(key): /brɵnɧ/
• Rhymes: -ɵnɧ

brunch c

1. brunch

• frunch