lunch（ランチ）
意味
- 昼食
- 昼ごはん(= midday meal)
- {動} 昼食をとる
例文
What do Japanese students usually eat for lunch?
日本人の学生さんって、普段お昼は何を食べるの？
I'll fix a sandwich or something for your lunch.
昼食用にサンドイッチか何かを作って上げましょう。
She promised her father to be in time for lunch.
彼女は昼食までには帰ってくると父親に約束した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms of luncheon include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin. In contrast, the more common sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump.