Synonyms for dinner

Grammar : Noun

Spell : din-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪn ər

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Définition of dinner

Origin : c.1300, from Old French disner (11c.), originally "breakfast," later "lunch," noun use of infinitive disner (see dine). Always used in English for the main meal of the day; shift from midday to evening began with the fashionable classes. Childish reduplication din-din is attested from 1905.

noun evening meal

Example sentences :

I'm going to stay to dinner with you, and you must give me something better than that.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

Sure enough—they were in Chicago and had dinner with us on their way out.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

For young Bines, after dinner, fell in love with Miss Milbrey all over again.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Throughout the dinner their entire absorption in each other was all but unbroken.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

I do not propose to speak in detail of the dinner that followed.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

On Sunday, the 29th of May, all hands came ashore to dinner.
Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest

This was good news; so after dinner we packed up and went over to the water.
Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest

Girls, do you remember the dinner we gave here after the ghost party?
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

She knew, only too well, that Althea's invitation to dinner had not been disinterested.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

He would not stay for dinner, and would not put his foot inside the house again.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

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