dinner
NounUS[din-er]/ˈdɪnɚ/2 syllables
Synonyms:
dinner party
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)dinners
- the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday“dinner will be at 8”“on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church”Type of meal, repastKinds high tea
- a party of people assembled to have dinner together“guests should never be late to a dinner party”Synonyms: dinner partyType of partyKinds banquet, beanfeast
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Translations
Noun evening meal
- Spanish
- cena
- French
- dîner
- German
- Abendessen
- Italian
- cena
- Portuguese
- jantar
- Turkish
- akşam yemeği
- Russian
- у́жин úžin
- Arabic
- عَشَاء ʕašāʔ
- Chinese
- 晚餐 wǎncān
- Japanese
- 夕食 yūshoku
36 more languages
- Dutch
- avondeten
- Polish
- kolacja
- Swedish
- middag
- Greek
- βραδινό vradinó
- Korean
- 저녁 jeonyeok
- Indonesian
- makan malam
- Vietnamese
- bữa tối
- Hungarian
- vacsora
- Portuguese (PT)
- jantar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 晚餐 wǎncān
- Albanian
- darkë
- Breton
- koan
- Catalan
- sopar
- Corsican
- cena
- Czech
- večeře
- Danish
- middag
- Esperanto
- vespermanĝo
- Estonian
- õhtusöök
- Finnish
- päivällinen
- Georgian
- ვახშამი vaxšami
- Hebrew
- אֲרוּחַת עֶרֶב arukhat erev
- Icelandic
- kvöldmatur
- Kurdish
- şîv
- Latvian
- vakariņas
- Lithuanian
- vakarienė
- Malagasy
- sakafo hariva
- Norwegian
- middag
- Romanian
- cină
- Scottish Gaelic
- dìnnear
- Serbo-Croatian
- večera
- Slovak
- večera
- Slovenian
- večerja
- Swahili
- chakula cha jioni
- Walloon
- soper
- Welsh
- swper
- Yiddish
- וועטשערע vetshere
Noun midday meal
- Spanish
- almuerzo
- French
- déjeuner
- German
- Mittagessen
- Italian
- pranzo
- Portuguese
- almoço
- Russian
- обе́д obéd
- Arabic
- غَدَاء ḡadāʔ
- Japanese
- 昼食 chūshoku
- Dutch
- middageten
- Polish
- obiad
Noun a formal meal
- German
- Dinner
- Turkish
- akşam yemeği
- Russian
- обе́д obéd
- Chinese
- 正餐 zhèngcān
- Japanese
- 晩餐 bansan
- Dutch
- diner
- Greek
- δείπνο deípno
- Korean
- 만찬 manchan
- Hungarian
- díszvacsora
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 正餐 zhèngcān
4 more languages
- Czech
- večeře
- Finnish
- päivällinen
- Romanian
- dineu
- Slovenian
- večerja
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
din′ner noun
Origin: F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.
1. The principal meal of the day, eaten in some countries about midday, but in others (especially in the U. S. and in large cities) at a later hour.
2. An entertainment; a feast.
A grand political dinner.— Alfred Tennyson
☞ Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54