DINNER

dinner

(noun) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; “dinner will be at 8”; “on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church”

dinner, dinner party

(noun) a party of people assembled to have dinner together; “guests should never be late to a dinner party”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

dinner (countable and uncountable, plural dinners)

A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).

The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.

An evening meal.

A meal given to an animal.

A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.

(uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.

Usage notes

• 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

• (an evening meal): 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

Verb

dinner (third-person singular simple present dinners, present participle dinnering, simple past and past participle dinnered)

(intransitive) To eat a dinner.

(transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner.

Synonyms

• (eat a dinner): dine (formal)

Anagrams

• endrin, in dern

Source: Wiktionary

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Din"ner, n. Etym: [F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.]

1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

2. An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

Note: Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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