dinner
English
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Etymology
editFrom Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”). Doublet of diner.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɪnə/
Audio (UK): (file) - (US) enPR: dĭnʹər, IPA(key): /ˈdɪnəɹ/, [ˈdɪnɚ]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: din‧ner
Noun
editdinner (countable and uncountable, plural dinners)
- A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
- 1892, Walter Besant, “In the Office”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 45:
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri[1]:
- It was already late for school, so the boy took his time and only arrived in the village when Heidi came home for dinner. […] "Come to the table now and eat with us. Then you can go up with Heidi, and when you bring her back at night, you can get your supper here."
- The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
- 1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
- I wonder what's for dinner.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- 1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Philips Interactive Media (publ.).
- An evening meal.
- I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.
- A meal given to an animal.
- Give the dog its dinner.
- A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2:
- When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
- Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
- (uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
Usage notes
edit- There are differences in usage according to the social class of the speaker. Working-class and lower-middle-class speakers in Britain, for example, are more likely to refer to the midday meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "tea" rather than "supper". Some speakers use common collocations of dinner such as school dinner, Sunday dinner and Christmas dinner to describe meals that they wouldn't otherwise call a dinner.
Synonyms
edit- (an evening meal): supper, tea
- (meal given to an animal): chow
- (midday meal): lunch, luncheon
- (formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion): banquet, feast, luncheon
Derived terms
edit- after-dinner
- after-dinner speech
- all duck or no dinner
- a revolution is not a dinner party
- bachelor dinner
- bachelor's dinner
- basket dinner
- bedinner
- boiled dinner
- brinner
- Burns dinner
- candlelight dinner
- candlelit dinner
- Christmas dinner
- dinner bell
- dinner camp
- dinner-card
- dinner dance
- dinner dress
- dinnerette
- dinner fork
- dinner-goer
- dinner guest
- dinner hour
- dinner-hour
- dinner jacket
- dinner-jacketed
- dinner knife
- dinner lady
- dinnerless
- dinnerlike
- dinnerly
- dinner man
- dinnermate
- dinner party
- dinner-party
- dinner pill
- dinner plate
- dinnerplate
- dinner ring
- dinner roll
- dinner salad
- dinner service
- dinner shirt
- dinner suit
- dinner table
- dinner-table
- dinner theater
- dinner theatre
- dinner time
- dinner-time
- dinnertime
- dinner wagon
- dinnerwards
- dinnerware
- dinnerwear
- dinnery
- doggy dinner bowl look
- dog's dinner
- done up like a dog's dinner
- dressed up like a dog's dinner
- duck dinner
- dump dinner
- dunch
- frozen dinner
- full-course dinner
- girl dinner
- hand in one's dinner pail
- idea dinner
- Javanese dinner
- Jefferson-Jackson dinner
- Jiggs dinner
- life-dinner principle
- Lincoln-Reagan dinner
- linner
- lunner
- postdinner
- potluck dinner
- predinner
- progressive dinner
- rehearsal dinner
- roast dinner
- Russian dinner
- school dinner
- school dinner lady
- school-dinner lady
- scramble dinner
- shore dinner
- Sunday dinner
- Trafalgar Night dinner
- TV dinner
Related terms
edit- (combinatorial form): deipno-
- (fear of): deipnophobia
- (verb): dine
Descendants
editTranslations
editevening meal
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a meal given to an animal
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midday meal
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a formal meal
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Verb
editdinner (third-person singular simple present dinners, present participle dinnering, simple past and past participle dinnered)
- (intransitive) To eat a dinner; to dine.
- 2014, Caroline Akervik, chapter 6, in White Pine[2], White Bear Lake, MN: Melange Books, page 57:
- Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp.
- (transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine.
- 1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,[3]
- She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.
- 2004, Colm Tóibín, chapter 2, in The Master[4], New York: Scribner, page 26:
- ‘The Irish were awful anyway,’ Lady Wolseley said, ‘and their not attending the season should be greeted with relief. The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them. The truth is that no one wants to marry their daughters, no one at all.’
- 1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,[3]
Synonyms
edit- (eat a dinner): dine (formal)
Translations
editeat dinner
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provide someone with a dinner
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Anagrams
editChinese
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edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: din1 naa4 / din1 naa2
- Yale: dīn nàh / dīn ná
- Cantonese Pinyin: din1 naa4 / din1 naa2
- Guangdong Romanization: din1 na4 / din1 na2
- Sinological IPA (key): /tiːn⁵⁵ naː²¹/, /tiːn⁵⁵ naː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
editdinner
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) dinner (evening meal; formal meal at special occasion) (Classifier: 個／个 c; 餐 c)
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