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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง lunch = ‘LUHNCH’

ออกเสียง luncheon = ‘LUHN-chuhn’

 

NECTEC’s Lexitron-2 Dictionary

ให้คำแปล lunch = N. อาหารกลางวัน Vt. เตรียม/รับประทาน อาหารกลางวัน

ให้คำแปลluncheon = N. อาหารมื้อเที่ยง

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression

lunch & luncheon       

These words refer to a light meal eaten at 

some time between breakfast and dinner (or supper)

 

Lunch is considered more informal than luncheon.

If the meal is customary and uneventful, use lunch.

If it is an occasion, a formal occurrence, say luncheon.

“Pick me up for lunch.”

 

The annual luncheon for employees will be given next week,”

 

Lunch can also serve as a verb (lunch with me), 

but luncheon is a noun only.

 

Collins COBUILD English Usage

Dinner & lunch

 

1. 'dinner'

People usually call their main meal of the day dinner.

Some people have this meal in the middle of the day,

and others have it in the evening.

We had roast beef and potatoes for dinner.

I haven't had dinner yet.

 

2. 'lunch'

People who call their evening meal dinner

usually refer to a meal eaten in the middle of the day as lunch.

I had soup and a sandwich for lunch.

I'm going out to lunch.

 

Be Careful!

You don't usually use 'a' with dinner or lunch.

Don't say, for example, I haven't had a dinner yet'.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage Notes

Has ‘Supper’ Always Meant ‘Dinner?'

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What to Know

Dinner and supper are generally synonymous

when referring to a meal in the evening.

 

However, dinner can be considered by some 

to be a somewhat more formal word.

 

In chiefly British English,

supper can also refer to a light meal or snack 

that is eaten late in the evening.

 

What do you call the meal that you eat at the end of the day?

Do you call it dinner or supper?

Your answer might depend on where you grew up 

or how old you are.

The words have shifted in meaning as dining habits have changed.

 

The same restaurant might serve lunch 

during the hours of 11:00 am to 2 pm, 

or adjust those hours for what it calls brunch on the weekend.

 

Distinction Between Dinner and Supper

But the use of dinner to refer to 

the main meal of the day,

eaten as the last meal of the day, 

is a relatively recent phenomenon.

 

For a long time, that main meal 

was held during the middle part of the day, 

around or slightly after the time 

we would nowadays allot for lunch. 

 

What was then called supper was a lighter meal 

taken toward the end of the day.

 

The Last Supper

In Christian theology, 

the term supper brings with it a suggestion of finality.

 

The most famous supper, known as The Last Supper 

and immortalized in art by Leonardo da Vinci with that title, 

came when Jesus ate with his apostles before his crucifixion, 

laying the groundwork for the tradition of the Eucharist.

 

How Dinner Became Supper

A clue to the historical role of supper 

is given in its etymology. 

 

Both supper and dinner 

have closely related verbs in English: sup and dine.

 

Dinner derives via Middle English from the Anglo-French verb disner, meaning “to dine.” 

 

The comparable etymon for supper is the Anglo-French super, meaning “to sup,” related to supe, the noun for “soup.”

 

The typical meal prepared for supper 

was something of a light repast akin to soup

—perhaps something that could be left to simmer 

on the stove throughout the day.

 

So what changed to make the evening hour the dinner hour? 

People’s daily schedules, for one thing. 

As historian Helen Zoe Veit notes at NPR.org, 

with the rise of industrialization, 

more Americans began working outside the home 

and couldn’t return to eat their main meal in the middle of the day.

 

So what was known as dinner got shifted to the evening, 

when those workers returned home, 

and we adopted lunch for the light midday meal in its stead. 

 

We most likely get the word lunch as a short form of luncheon, and luncheon as an alteration of nuncheon, 

referring to a light snack. 

 

That word’s history pins it to its hour of taking place. 

 

The Middle English nonshench, used for a midday refreshment, 

was formed from non, meaning “noon,” 

and schench, meaning “drink.”

 

It is logical, then, that speakers of certain generations, 

used to referring to supper as a day’s last meal, 

carried that word over for the main meal of the day 

taken in the evening, 

thereby leading to its conflation with dinner.