luncheon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A formal meal served in the middle of the day.

   “Most people thought the food at the luncheon was mediocre.”

2. isim A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices.

   “Ian bought the luncheon since it was on special.”

3. isim Any midday meal; lunch.

   “Have you had luncheon?”

4. isim A lump of food.
5. isim A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.

   “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.”

6. fiil To eat luncheon.

   “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[…]”

7. fiil To serve luncheon to.

   “Towns welcomed us in our hundreds; M.P.’s luncheoned us, manufacturers turned out their warehouses, decorated them and feasted us; private families tea’d us on their lawns, but we were so true to our art that we always returned to—“papers!””