noun
Meaning 1
A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lunchbreak
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History
Etymology
From lunch + break.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اِسْتِرَاحَةُ الْغَدَاء (istirāḥatu l-ḡadāʔ) — break for lunch
- Chinese Mandarin: 午餐休息 (wǔcān xiūxi) — break for lunch
- Dutch: middagpauze — break for lunch
- Finnish: lounastauko — break for lunch
- French: pause-déjeuner — break for lunch
- German: Mittagspause — break for lunch
- Hungarian: ebédszünet — break for lunch
- Irish: sos lóin — break for lunch
- Japanese: お昼休み (o-hiruyasumi) — break for lunch
- Korean: 점심시간 (jeomsimsigan) — break for lunch
- Polish: przerwa obiadowa — break for lunch
- Romanian: pauză de prânz — break for lunch
- Russian: обе́денный переры́в (obédennyj pererýv) — break for lunch
- Russian: переры́в на обе́д (pererýv na obéd) — break for lunch
- Swedish: lunchrast — break for lunch
- Turkish: öğle molası — break for lunch
- Ukrainian: обі́дня пере́рва (obídnja perérva) — break for lunch
- Welsh: amser cinio — break for lunch