dinner
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: dinners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dinners
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dinnering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dinnered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dinnered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
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.
I want to cook dinner.
gloss: An evening meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.
Do I have to change for dinner?
We're about to start dinner. Phone again later.
gloss: A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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."
gloss: A meal given to an animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Give the dog its dinner.
gloss: A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My family gathers twice a year, namely at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners.
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.
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.
gloss: The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To eat a dinner; to dine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,
She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.
‘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.’
Related words: deipnophobia
dine
Derived words: 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
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