supper
IPA: sˈʌpɝ
noun
- Food consumed before going to bed.
- Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
- A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).
verb
- To consume a snack before going to bed.
- To eat dinner.
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Examples of "supper" in Sentences
- The ordinances are baptism and the Lord's supper.
- The church observes baptism and the Lord's Supper.
- In effect, the meal was symbolic of the Last Supper.
- Supper was cornbread, fried potatoes, and pinto beans.
- I had a slice of pizza and a bowl of soup as a supper.
- At bedtime, the supper is left on the table for the souls.
- The sacraments of the church are baptism and the Lord's Supper.
- The church firmly stresses the real presence in the Lord's Supper.
- The final scene in the tavern parodies the painting 'The Last Supper'.
- Characteristically he is known in the sharing together of the Lord's Supper.
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