dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪnə/
enpr: dĭnʹər
ipa: /ˈdɪnɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɪnːə(ɾ)/
ipa: /ˈdɪnːa/
rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dinners
Etymology: From 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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
text: I want to cook dinner.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
examples: text: I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.
glosses: An evening meal.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “In the Office”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 45:
text: 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."
ref: 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyrihttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/20781/20781-h/20781-h.htm
glosses: A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
examples: text: Give the dog its dinner.
glosses: A meal given to an animal.
examples: text: My family gathers twice a year, namely at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
glosses: The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
Synonyms: sense: an evening meal
word: supper
sense: an evening meal
word: tea
sense: meal given to an animal
word: chow
sense: midday meal
word: lunch
sense: midday meal
word: luncheon
sense: formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion
word: banquet
sense: formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion
word: feast
sense: formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion
word: luncheon
Derived terms: 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-hour
dinner hour
dinner jacket
dinner-jacketed
dinner knife
dinner lady
dinnerless
dinnerlike
dinnerly
dinner man
dinnermate
dinner party
dinner-party
dinner pill
dinnerplate
dinner plate
dinner ring
dinner roll
dinner room
dinner salad
dinner service
dinner shirt
dinner suit
dinner-table
dinner table
dinner theater
dinner theatre
dinner-time
dinner time
dinnertime
dinnertini
dinner wagon
dinnerwards
dinnerware
dinnerwear
dinnery
doggy dinner bowl look
dog's dinner
done like a dinner
done up like a dog's dinner
dressed up like a dog's dinner
duck dinner
duck or no 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 dinner
Lincoln-Reagan dinner
linner
lunner
postdinner
potluck dinner
predinner
progressive dinner
Reagan 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: sense: combinatorial form
word: deipno-
sense: fear of
word: deipnophobia
word: dine