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Plural of lunch

regular plural

The plural of lunch is lunches.

Forms of lunch

Singularlunch /lʌnt͡ʃ/
Plurallunches /ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lunches in a sentence

  • After the layoffs, he gained a reputation as a hatchet man and ended up eating lunches alone.From the entry hatchet man
  • My boss is out on another of his three-martini lunches.From the entry martini
  • Lunches can be events but they are also meals and as such physical objects.2011, Nicholas Asher, Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry copredication
  • Head upstairs to check on the cooking dinner entree, pack nonjunk lunches.2007 January 28, Lisa Belkin, “Charting a Path From Bed to Desk”, in New York Times. From the entry nonjunk
  • As far as Nick could make out it consisted of having long, boozy lunches with other businesswomen.1994, Susan B. Kelly, Time of Hope. From the entry Bunburying

Meaning of lunch

  1. noun A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
  2. noun A break in play between the first and second sessions.
  3. noun Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.

Full definition of lunch

Questions about the plural of lunch

What is the plural of lunch?
The plural of lunch is lunches.
Is lunch countable?
Lunch is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lunch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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