brunch

/bɹʌnt͡ʃ/

brunch noun: 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.

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Noun

brunch (countable and uncountable, plural brunches)

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!

Verb

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

To eat brunch.

brunch meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

brunch in Hindi

ब्रंच

brunch in Tamil

முற்பகல் உணவு, காலைச் சிற்றுண்டியையும்

brunch in Marathi

a meal: ब्रंच brañca

brunch in Urdu

برنچ

More languagesFewer languages

brunch in Bengali: ব্রাঞ্চ
brunch in Telugu: బ్రంచ్, బ్రన్చ్
brunch in Malayalam: ബ്രഞ്ച്
brunch in Kannada: ತಿಂಟ
brunch in Punjabi: ਬਰੰਚ, ਬ੍ਰੰਚ, ਬਰੂਨਚ
brunch in Gujarati: બ્રંચ
brunch in Nepali: ब्रन्च
brunch in Thai: บรันช์ bɔ̀-ran

Examples of brunch in a sentence

Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus, “The Front”, in Rich Moore, director, The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan...

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Forms of brunch

Noun
plural	brunches
Verb
third-person singular present	brunches
present participle	brunching
past participle	brunched
past	brunched

Plural of brunch: brunches

Origin of brunch

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

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Questions about brunch

What does brunch mean?: Brunch means 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.
What is brunch in Hindi?: Brunch in Hindi is ब्रंच. See Brunch meaning in Hindi.
How do you use brunch in a sentence?: Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
What part of speech is brunch?: Brunch can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce brunch?: Brunch is pronounced /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/.
What is the plural of brunch?: The plural of brunch is brunches.

Words near brunch in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: brunch (page history and authors); brunch (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brunch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brunch (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brunch (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brunch (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brunch (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brunch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brunch (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brunch (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brunch (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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