dinner
IPA: dˈɪnɝ
noun
- A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
- The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
- An evening meal.
- A meal given to an animal.
- A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
- (uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
verb
- (intransitive) To eat a dinner; to dine.
- (transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine.
Examples of "dinner" in Sentences
- Dinner is already served.
- The diner opens for the dinner.
- Dinner was a convivial occasion.
- The men discontinued their dinner.
- Then at dinner they overeat, and tuck in.
- The animals' wildness disconcerted the evening dinner.
- The head chef determines the menu and overall cost of the dinner.
- At the end of the dinner, the evening's champion idiot is selected.
- He invites all of the gentlemen present to a venison dinner that evening.
- The lunch menu does not consist of all the same entrees as the dinner menu.
- In our house the term dinner was reserved for special occasions and holidays.
- When mamma and I sit down to what we call dinner, I always feel that there is
- In Spain dinner is eaten late, ten, eleven p.m. late, so tapas are the solution.
- What brings hundreds to the dinner is the appearance of alumni members who sign autographs and interact with guests.
- Although the dinner is a traditional showcase for presidential humor, there was scathing backlash from Democrats, anti-war liberals and relatives of servicemembers.
- 'We had,' she records, in May 1779, 'a very grand dinner to-day, _though nothing to a Streatham dinner_, at the Ship Tavern [Brighton], where the officers mess, to which we were invited by the major and the captain. '
- At length the clock in the steeple of the "Old South" pronounced that the dinner hour had arrived -- and despite the intense cold, the street soon became alive with people hurrying to and fro; for what weather can induce a hungry man to neglect that important era in the events of the day -- his _dinner_?