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lunching

/ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪŋ/

lunching is the present participle and gerund of lunch.

Meaning of lunch

Verb

lunch (third-person singular simple present lunches, present participle lunching, simple past and past participle lunched)

  1. (intransitive) To eat lunch.
    • I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
  2. (transitive) To treat to lunch.
    • We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flashlight.1906, H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities

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Noun

lunching (plural lunchings)

  1. The act of eating lunch.
    • They knew ways to get what they wanted, and always had some in a side place for captains and their friends at lunchings.1885, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook, volume 32, page 6

Forms of lunching

plurallunchings

Words formed from lunching

Phrases with lunching

Words that rhyme with lunching

Questions about lunching

What does lunching mean?
Lunching means the act of eating lunch.
What is lunching the present participle and gerund of?
Lunching is the present participle and gerund of lunch.
What part of speech is lunching?
Lunching is a noun.
How do you pronounce lunching?
Lunching is pronounced /ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪŋ/.
What is the plural of lunching?
The plural of lunching is lunchings.

Words near lunching in the dictionary

  1. lunches out
  2. luncheteria
  3. luncheterias
  4. lunchette
  5. lunchettes
  6. lunching
  7. lunching in
  8. lunching out
  9. lunchings
  10. lunchladies
  11. lunchlady

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunching (page history and authors); lunch (page history and authors). 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.

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