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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The time during which lunch is usually eaten.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the time for eating lunch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The time or hour at which lunch is normally eaten.
  • noun the period of 30 minutes to an hour at midday between lessons when schoolchildren are allowed to go outside and play or eat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch

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lunch +‎ time

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