dinner
The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
Example
“I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.”
Other meanings
An evening meal.
“I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.”
A midday meal in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea.
A kind of
- meal
Related words
- bedinner
- dinnerette
- dinnerlike
- dinnerly
- dinnermate
- dinnerplate
- dinnertime
- dinnerwards
- dinnerwear
- lunner
- postdinner
- predinner
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "dis-".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dinner” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.