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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lunchtime
noun
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▪ At lunchtime I take my Colefax & Fowler bag and change it for the one hidden above the cistern.
▪ By lunchtime, everyone would know, and they would make her life a living hell after that.
▪ It was almost the end of lunchtime.
▪ Lyn stroked him and reminded him she would be back at lunchtime.
▪ No, it was past lunchtime, and this wasn't early closing day.
▪ She had hit him at lunchtime - her feelings now were even more murderous.
▪ That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete, but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lunchtime

lunchtime \lunchtime\ n. the time for eating lunch; as, he observed a regular lunchtime.

Wiktionary
lunchtime

n. 1 The time or hour at which lunch is normally eaten. 2 the period of 30 minutes to an hour at midday between lessons when schoolchildren are allowed to go outside and play or eat.

WordNet
lunchtime

n. the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch; "he observed a regular lunchtime" [syn: lunch period]

Wikipedia
Lunchtime (horse)

Lunchtime (foaled 1970) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was undefeated in three races as a two-year-old in 1972, including the Dewhurst Stakes and was regarded as a major contender for the British Classic Races. He failed to win in three starts in the following year and was retired to become a breeding stallion in Australia. He had some success as a sire of winners.

Usage examples of "lunchtime".

But yummy pastries, decadent individual cakes, huge cookies, and lunchtime edibles like ham and fontina panini and pizzettas with mixed green salads are equal reason to stop by and linger at one of the few tables.

It was just before lunchtime and Mama was still chillin' in her robe, fresh from the sack.

At lunchtime, we were told that because of deconfliction we might not be able to get in.

The dockers drink here every lunchtime and the Barbarians are stopping off on their way to enlist in the army.

The usual press of lunchtime drinkers would begin arriving in another fifteen minutes, after which the opportunity to speak quietly to anyone would be gone But ten minutes, the hotel proprietor reasoned, should be sufficient for what he had come to do.

Saturday treat is to lie in till half past eight, savouring the indulgence and knowing that her flatmates will not surface until lunchtime.

The lunchtime crowd in the foodcourt at Pentagon Plaza had first been alerted by a loud rattling noise on the glass overhead.

Rifkin is allergic to the nitrates in the bologna sandwich that was waiting for him at lunchtime today.

Around lunchtime she was still contemplating the fact that she was blessed among women, when Armstrong rapped on the door to tell her that Miss Angela Windham was on the telephone and wished to speak to her.

Sometimes lunchtime lasted longer than expected - aberrant bad trips had been known to last four or five days - and unlike LSD, its effects were potentiated - intensified - by the administration of Thorazine and other phenothiazine tranquillisers.

Lunchtime, Christmas Day, I'm having a bite to eat, American turkey with cranberry sauce as well as good old Aussie brown gravy poured over everything, when I hear a burst of rifle fire.

It was as though that lunchtime spasm had cleared away black humours inaccessible to the Chinese black draught.

It was typical of the neighborhood at lunchtime: a crowded scene smelling of dampness, dominated by the sight of tightly rolled umbrellas, and bowler hats perched here and hanging there, dark-suited men from everywhere in the city taking their midday recess of lager and sandwiches.

At lunchtime we lolled in the pleasant warmth of our favorite baby box canyon that held the sun and shut out the wind.

Zero-tolerance policies for weapons in schools was forcing teachers to suspend children of seven, eight and nine for bringing butter knives to spread their lunchtime peanut butter.