diner
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- noun
- /ˈdaɪnər/
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comensal
- Every table was filled with diners enjoying their meals during the lunchtime rush.
- other diners
- restaurant diners
- fellow diners
What I've had it with is diners that are telling personal stories to the wait staff.
- What I've had it with is diners that are telling personal stories to the wait staff.
- My cooking philosophy is simple, respect your ingredients and create delicious delicate emotions and flavour for my diners.
- When you shut down the restaurant industry as we have, you don't just hurt waiters and dine and chefs, you hurt diners.
- We got the child out of the restaurant because we have self-awareness to the other diners that they do not want to hear our children scream.
- I'd much rather go to a restaurant that the Co diners had their dogs with them than their children.
- Anyway, we're selling it in large bottles, like beer size bottles for your diners.
Examples
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There was a long silence as everyone in the diner stared at him.
Fiction book (1999) -
Each group of diners greeted him with gusto; animated conversation and smiles followed in his wake.
Fiction book (1992) -
That same guy, he was just in the diner we were in.
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All he could think about were the men who came to the diner looking for her.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm the only diner who matters here.
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She decided to keep the diner open all night.
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So you've got hundreds of diners coming into your restaurant.
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Dean and Stacy are the only other diners at the table.
Fiction book (1998) -
I didn't want to be alone, though among so many diners, I felt overwhelmed.
Fiction book (1999) -
At adjoining tables, the diners also pause, the knives, the forks, motionless in their hands.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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A person or animal that eats food to live
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Etymology
Diner The word diner for a person comes from the verb dine, which comes from old French 'disner' meaning 'to eat'. So a diner is simply someone 'who eats' a meal.