supper
(noun) a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime
supper
(noun) a social gathering where a light evening meal is served; “her suppers often included celebrities”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)
Food consumed before going to bed.
Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
(Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
• (meal): dinner; evening meal; see also meal
supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)
To consume a snack before retiring.
To eat dinner (see above).
supper (plural suppers)
A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e, one who sups).
• Ruppes, uppers
Source: Wiktionary
Sup"per, n. Etym: [OE. soper, super, OF. super, soper, F. souper; originally an infinitive, to sup, take a meal. See Soup, and cf. Sup to take supper.]
Definition: A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc.
Sup"per, v. i.
Definition: To take supper; to sup. [R.]
Sup"per, v. t.
Definition: To supply with supper. [R.] "Kester was suppering the horses." Mrs. Gaskell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 May 2024
(noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
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