lunchroom

noun

lunch·​room ˈlənch-ˌrüm How to pronounce lunchroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
1
2
: a room (as in a school) where lunches supplied on the premises or brought from home may be eaten

Examples of lunchroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web One mother’s struggle to find shoes that fit Gionet, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is on disability and works as a lunchroom supervisor at her son's school for an hour a day. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024 The trailer shows the crew inviting Franklin to sit with them in a lunchroom. The Indianapolis Star, 5 Feb. 2024 And yet, in business settings, it had been mainly relegated to the water cooler or lunchroom—not the boardroom. Brent Dykes, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 She’s returned for the film version, and from the moment her Regina swaggers into the school lunchroom, the actor owns this film. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024 Her father drove a school bus, owned an auto repair shop and ran a farm, while her mother sold milk from their one cow, worked in the school lunchroom and later joined the post office. Peter Baker, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023 Kids can put together scenes of art and science classes and even the lunchroom scenes. Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2023 There was a Christmas party the last day before the holidays, and the children stuffed themselves with sugary cookies the lunchroom provided. Beth Thames, al, 14 Dec. 2022 Hoff was assigned to look after them, getting them pencils and paper, showing them where the lunchroom was—nothing technical. IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of lunchroom was in 1830

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Cite this Entry

“Lunchroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunchroom. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

lunchroom

noun
lunch·​room ˈlənch-ˌrüm How to pronounce lunchroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
1
2
: a room (as in a school) where lunches may be eaten
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