luncheon
要点昼食
意味
- 昼食
- (正式接待の場所の)午餐(ごさん)
例文
Is it too early to order from the luncheon menu?
昼食のメニューの中から注文するには早すぎますか。
It was a good luncheon, as hotels go.
世間一般のホテルなみにいえば良い昼食会だった。
We asked ten people to the luncheon.
昼食会に１０人を招待した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from an earlier *lumpchin, *lumpchen, a diminutive of lump (“chunk, parcel of food, lunch”), thus related to lunch. It is unclear which came first: whether lunch is a shortening of luncheon, or whether luncheon is an augmentation of lunch. Possibly also a dissimilatory form of or influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”). Noun sense 2 (“sausage”) is likely a ellipsis of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.