Luncheon vs Brunch - What's the difference?
luncheon | brunch |
A formal meal served in the middle of the day.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 (lb) A lump of food.
(lb) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.
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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
(dated) To eat luncheon.
* Benjamin Disraeli
A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of some foods that would normally be eaten at breakfast and some foods that would normally be eaten at lunch.
To eat brunch.
As nouns the difference between luncheon and brunch
is that luncheon is a formal meal served in the middle of the day while brunch is a meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of some foods that would normally be eaten at breakfast and some foods that would normally be eaten at lunch.As verbs the difference between luncheon and brunch
is that luncheon is to eat luncheon while brunch is to eat brunch.luncheon
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Derived terms
* luncheonetteSee also
* lunch * tiffin * dejeunerVerb
(en verb)- In the meantime, while ladies are luncheoning on chicken pie, or coursing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular ceremonies of a London morning in the heart of the season