Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brunch

/bɹʌnt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: brunch
IPA: /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To eat brunch.

Example Sentences

"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."
"I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch."

Etymology

Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.

Usage

Inflected Forms

brunches (plural) brunches (present, singular) brunching (participle, present) brunched (participle, past) brunched (past)

Derived Forms

brunchtime brunchy prebrunch

Phrases

brunch word

Frequently Paired Words

dunch linner lupper brinner brupper dinfast

Rhymes With

lunch bunch punch crunch munch hunch scrunch eat someone's lunch dunch trunch wunch cunch

Questions

How do you pronounce brunch?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/.
What does brunch mean?: A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, often in a leisurely, festive, and/or social way, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
Where does brunch come from?: Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.

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