Synonyms for dinner
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : din-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪn ər |
Top 10 synonyms for dinner Other synonyms for the word dinner
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
- 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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