lunchroom

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US/ˈlʌnt͡ʃˌɹum/

noun

A room designated as a place to eat lunch.

“Company policy was to eat snacks only in the lunchroom.”

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

nounlunchroom (plural lunchrooms)

plural lunchrooms

  1. A room designated as a place to eat lunch.

    Company policy was to eat snacks only in the lunchroom.

    2 more examples

    Kraft Heinz said the new products will be available nationwide to all school administrators to procure and offer to students either for purchase in the lunchroom – though the company did not disclose the cost to schools – or for free through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

    2023 March 13, Parija Kavilanz, “Lunchables are going to be rolled out directly to students. Here’s what’s in them”, in CNN

    Lunchables, made by Kraft Heinz, took its packaged ready-to-eat kids meals directly into K-12 school lunchrooms nationwide through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) for the first time last year.

    2024 April 9, Parija Kavilanz and Sandee LaMotte, “Consumer Reports says Lunchables ‘should not be allowed on menu’ for schools, petitions USDA for removal”, in CNN

    Synonyms: break room, comfort room, cafeteria

  2. A diner or small restaurant that serves lunch.

    I don't know how they stay in business serving only lunch, but the lunchroom on the corner is cheap and fast so I like it.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA room designated as a place to eat lunch.

Origin

  1. Englishlunch
  2. Proto-Indo-European*Hrew-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(H)rewH-
  4. Proto-Germanic*rūmą
  5. Proto-West Germanic*rūm
  6. Old Englishrūm
  7. Middle Englishroum
  8. Englishroom
  9. Englishlunchroom

From lunch + room.

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Cite this entry
APA

lunchroom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunchroom

MLA

“lunchroom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunchroom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lunchroom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunchroom.

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