LUNCHEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luncheon mean? 

• LUNCHEON (noun)
  The noun LUNCHEON has 1 sense:

1. a midday meal

  Familiarity information: LUNCHEON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUNCHEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midday meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

dejeuner; lunch; luncheon; tiffin

Hypernyms ("luncheon" is a kind of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "luncheon"):

business lunch (lunch (usually at a restaurant) where business is discussed and the cost is charged as a business expense)

 Context examples 

Then, after a hasty luncheon, we turned the mares’ heads for the south.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The afternoon was far advanced before we were able to snatch a hasty luncheon at a restaurant.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Inspector and I must have a word with the prisoners, but you will certainly see me back at luncheon time.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Judge Scott shook his head sadly at luncheon table, when his son narrated the lesson he had given White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When all was arranged snugly, she said: “Now, sir, to bed. And you shall sleep until luncheon. Till dinner-time,” she corrected, remembering the arrangement on the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

After luncheon, the girl took them out for a walk, and I went to my needlework like little Mabel 'with a willing mind'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the dining saloon, at luncheon, he found himself in the place of honor, at the captain's right; and he was not long in discovering that he was the great man on board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Having done that, we may drive back to our luncheon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we went along, Kitty and I drew up the blinds, and pretended there was nobody in the coach; and I should have gone so all the way, if Kitty had not been sick; and when we got to the George, I do think we behaved very handsomely, for we treated the other three with the nicest cold luncheon in the world, and if you would have gone, we would have treated you too.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was twenty past three when we reached our terminus, and after a hasty luncheon at the buffet we pushed on at once to Scotland Yard.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)