déjeuner

/dɛʒɜːneɪ/

déjeuner noun: the French midday meal.

Noun

déjeuner (countable and uncountable, plural déjeuners)

The French midday meal.
- The déjeuner and the villa fête, the water party and the rambling ride, followed each other with the bright rapidity of the final scenes in a Pantomime.1831, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter XIV, in The Young Duke. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 105
- She had a certain price, from which no earthly consideration would induce her to depart; and certain returns for this price in the shape of déjeuners and dinners, baths and beds, which she never failed to give in accordance with the dictates of a strict conscience. These were traits in the...1861, Anthony Trollope, Tales of All Countries, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 4

déjeuner (third-person singular simple present déjeuners, present participle déjeunering, simple past and past participle déjeunered)

(intransitive, rare) To have déjeuner.
- I passed stacks of iron ore, piles of rails; heard of lots of forges to the right and left; swept over the Adour at Dax in view of its castle and great church; past Orthez with its immense town of Moncade (little dreaming of the Joys in store for me at its foot), where Gaston Phœbus, Count of Foix...1863 November 21, Peter Lesley, edited by Mary Lesley Ames, Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, published 1909...
- I lived like a fighting cock, smoked like a Turk, and drank (coffee) like a fish; I had dined and “déjeunered”; I saw everything and everybody on my route.1893 October 21, J. Rowley, “On a Bicycle through Normandy. With the French Army. (Conclusion.)”, in The Liverpool Echo, number 4,354, Liverpool, page 3, column 7

The charges at the Inns along the road are generally, bed 2 fr. [francs], café-au-lait 1 fr., déjeuner and dinner 3 to 4 fr. each.1874, A Handbook for Travellers in Algeria. […], London: John Murray, […], page 162, column 1:
During the summer months the following restaurants offer the advantages of open air gardens and terraces, where déjeuners and dinners are served: […]1900, Harper’s Guide to Paris and the Exposition of 1900: Being Practical Suggestions Concerning the Trip from New York to Paris, New York...
A friend of mine, who was at a déjeuner given at the Russian Embassy by the Prince Ouroussoff to the Grand Duc and Grande Duchesse Vladimir, told me that some of the toilettes were beautiful.1901, Country Life Illustrated, volume 9, page xx:
We went to-day to Roulinas to receive the jewels which Romain is to take to the Mont de Piété, and took déjeuner at Marguery’s (the expensive Porte St.1903, Truth, volume 54, page 1577:

Noun
plural	déjeuners
alternative form	déjeûner
alternative form	dejeuner
Verb
third-person singular present	déjeuners
present participle	déjeunering
past participle	déjeunered
past	déjeunered

Borrowed from French déjeuner.

What does déjeuner mean?: Déjeuner means the French midday meal.
How do you use déjeuner in a sentence?: The charges at the Inns along the road are generally, bed 2 fr. [francs], café-au-lait 1 fr., déjeuner and dinner 3 to 4 fr. each.
What part of speech is déjeuner?: Déjeuner can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce déjeuner?: Déjeuner is pronounced /dɛʒɜːneɪ/.
What is the plural of déjeuner?: The plural of déjeuner is déjeuners.

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