# diner
## English
### Etymology 1

From dine +‎ -er. Doublet of dinner.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: dī'nər IPA: /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

#### Noun

diner (plural diners)
* One who dines.
** 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
** 1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings:When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
* A dining car in a railroad train.
    Synonym: dining car
** 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.
** 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner:The diner is everybody's kitchen.
* (US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.
    Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant

##### Derived terms

* dinerlike
* diner lingo
* diner-out
* Joe's Diner
* lounge diner

##### Related terms

* dinette
* dining room

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* diner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.

#### Noun

diner (plural diners)
* A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

### Anagrams

* -drine, Idren, Indre, Riden, drein, rined

## Breton
### Etymology

From Latin denarius.

### Noun

diner ?
* denary

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar and denari.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [diˈne]
* IPA: (Valencia) [diˈneɾ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

diner m (plural diners)
* (usually in the plural) money
* (historical) denier
* (historical) denarius
    Synonym: denari

#### Derived terms

* adinerar
* diner de Sant Pere
* diner negre
* diner verd
* diner viu
* dinerada
* dineral
* dinerari
* dineret
* diners comptants

### Further reading

* “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “diner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diˈneː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: di‧ner
* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)
* dinner, supper

#### Synonyms

* avondeten (neutral register)

#### Derived terms

* kerstdiner

#### Related terms

* dineren

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

diner
* post-1990 spelling of dîner

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Noun

diner
* Alternative form of dyner

## Portuguese
### Noun

diner m (plural diners)
* diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)

## Walloon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.ne/

### Verb

diner
* Alternative form of dner