brunch

«brunch» in Mova's school dictionary: A meal eaten in the late morning instead of breakfast and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (brunch, brunches); verb (brunch, brunches, brunched — informal)

meaning for a pupil

A meal eaten in the late morning instead of breakfast and lunch, often bigger than breakfast. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life brunch is a weekend treat with pancakes, eggs, bacon, avocado toast or waffles, often at a café. In English lessons "brunch" is a good example of a blend word, made from "breakfast" and "lunch" (like smog = smoke + fog). Phrases: have brunch, Sunday brunch, go out for brunch.

examples

• We had brunch at the café on Sunday. tree →
• Brunch is breakfast and lunch rolled into one. tree →
• For brunch we had pancakes and eggs. tree →
• "Brunch" is made by joining "breakfast" and "lunch". tree →
• Mum loves a lazy Sunday brunch. tree →
• We brunched at eleven and then went to the beach. tree →

note

Countable or uncountable: "have brunch", "two brunches". A blend word (portmanteau). The verb is informal.

In the corpora

• A blend is a new word made from parts of two words, like spork, brunch and smog.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brunch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.