brunch
English
Etymology
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/, /bɹʌnʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Noun
brunch (countable and uncountable, plural brunches)
- A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
- I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
- Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
- Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
- April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus, “The Front”, in Rich Moore, director, The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
- I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: բրանչ (brančʻ)
- → Cantonese: 早午餐 (zou2 ng5 caan1)
- → Danish: brunch
- → Finnish: brunssi
- → French: brunch
- → German: Brunch
- → Georgian: ბრანჩი (branči)
- → Icelandic: bröns
- → Italian: brunch
- → Japanese: ブランチ (buranchi)
- → Korean: 브런치 (beureonchi)
- → Norwegian:
- → Polish: brunch
- → Portuguese: brunch
- → Romanian: brunch
- → Russian: бранч (branč)
- → Spanish: brunch
- → Swedish: brunch
- → Yiddish: בראָנטש (brontsh)
Translations
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See also
Verb
brunch (third-person singular simple present brunches, present participle brunching, simple past and past participle brunched)
- To eat brunch.
Further reading
Danish
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɔnsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnɕ]
Noun
brunch c (singular definite brunchen, plural indefinite bruncher)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɔnˀsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnˀɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnˀɕ]
Verb
brunch
- imperative of brunche
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrʏnʃ/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: brunch
Etymology 1
Noun
brunch m (plural brunchen)
- a brunch
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
brunch
- inflection of brunchen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbruns/, [ˈbruns̠]
- IPA(key): /ˈbrɑntʃ/, [ˈbrɑ̝n̪t̪ʃ]
- Rhymes: -uns
Noun
brunch (rare)
Declension
| Inflection of brunch (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | brunch | brunchit | |
| genitive | brunchin | brunchien | |
| partitive | brunchia | bruncheja | |
| illative | brunchiin | bruncheihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | brunch | brunchit | |
| accusative | nom. | brunch | brunchit |
| gen. | brunchin | ||
| genitive | brunchin | brunchien | |
| partitive | brunchia | bruncheja | |
| inessive | brunchissa | bruncheissa | |
| elative | brunchista | bruncheista | |
| illative | brunchiin | bruncheihin | |
| adessive | brunchilla | bruncheilla | |
| ablative | brunchilta | bruncheilta | |
| allative | brunchille | bruncheille | |
| essive | brunchina | bruncheina | |
| translative | brunchiksi | bruncheiksi | |
| abessive | brunchitta | bruncheitta | |
| instructive | — | brunchein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “brunch”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁœnʃ/, (Quebec) /bʁɔnʃ/
Audio: (file)
Noun
brunch m (plural brunches)
Related terms
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Noun
brunch m (invariable)
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrant͡ʂ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ant͡ʂ
- Syllabification: brunch
Noun
brunch m inan
Declension
Further reading
- brunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃɨ/
Noun
brunch m (plural brunches)
- brunch (meal eaten later than breakfast and earlier than lunch)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Noun
brunch n (plural brunch-uri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | brunch | brunchul | brunch-uri | brunch-urile | |
| genitive-dative | brunch | brunchului | brunch-uri | brunch-urilor | |
| vocative | brunchule | brunch-urilor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɾant͡ʃ/ [ˈbɾãnʲt͡ʃ]
- Rhymes: -antʃ
Noun
brunch m (plural brunchs)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “brunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɵnɧ/
- Rhymes: -ɵnɧ
Noun
brunch c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | brunch | brunchs |
| definite | brunchen | brunchens | |
| plural | indefinite | bruncher | brunchers |
| definite | bruncherna | brunchernas |