dinner
- noun
- /ˈdɪnər/
- She did make sure we had dinner most nights.
- eat dinner
- prepare dinner
- family dinner
Drive home for dinner with my wife and kids.
- Drive home for dinner with my wife and kids.
- All right, now it is time for dinner in the restaurant.
- Probably my father was the person who had dinner with us both.
- And then when I'm back, we'll make some dinner and that's the day.
- So just left the shelter after getting Christmas dinner again?
- Like I could eat pizza for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack.
- You'll make up your own dinner from the rations.
- He mainly eats dinner and he's, he's lean now.
Examples
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In the evening, after an early dinner, Udell and I went for a walk.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'd love to take you out to dinner one night.
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Drive home for dinner with my wife and kids.
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All right, so how was dinner so good?
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All right, now it is time for dinner in the restaurant.
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We're gonna have dinner before we get on that train.
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One evening, I enjoyed having dinner with her family in their home.
Academic text (2011) -
So let's go get some dinner and just sit and chill out.
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Turning to her son, Annabelle said, "Dinner will be on the table in half an hour."
Fiction book (1990) -
We all met every night for dinner and then put Henry to bed together.
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Compounds
A matching set of plates, knives, and sometimes glasses that you use to serve a formal meal
A large piece of cloth or paper people use at dinner to protect clothes and wipe the mouth and hands
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Etymology
Dinner comes from an old Latin word disjejunare, which means 'to break a fast' — to stop fasting and eat. So dinner became the name for the main meal of the day, which people now have at midday or in the evening.