family dinner
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cena familiar
- Kelley urges busy families to make family dinners a priority while staying flexible.
- family dinner table
So I know Jake, like awkward, like family dinners with all of us, just weird shit.
- So I know Jake, like awkward, like family dinners with all of us, just weird shit.
- And I was blessed because there I was a few years later at my high school graduation, at our big family dinner.
- But when it is about life, family dinner is always bad.
- For example, or conditions might be family dinners or they might be.
- Well, this may take two family dinner nights to, to, to complete this whole round.
- And it, it's hard, especially when, but when you just kind of deescalate, you just, you keep the, the family dinner going.
Examples
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My kids are grown now, but when they were home we had sit-down family dinners every night.
Blog text (23) -
We've taken to having a family dinner every night, which both Ellie and Gwen love.
Blog text (28) -
And we always had family dinner every night, Sunday lunch as a family.
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You always have a family dinner starting today, I want you to have a family dinner every night.
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Yeah, and we just had a very nice family dinner together.
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I was hoping we could have a family dinner.
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When the children were young, we all ate at the family dinner table.
Blog text (34) -
And so Thanksgiving was always just like, literally like a regular family dinner for us, but just like with more food.
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Tonight there would be a big family dinner in the apartment on Orchard Street.
Fiction book (1992) -
We always enjoy our family dinner every Sunday, gathering around the table together.
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'family dinner' is directly and transparently composed from 'family' (people related by blood, marriage, or adoption) + 'dinner' (an evening meal), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a meal shared by family members. This noun + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward semantic combination, making it easily understandable at B1 level.
Etymology
The phrase family dinner comes from the simple picture of a family sitting together to eat the evening dinner, talking and helping each other. So a family dinner means a regular meal where people 'catch up' and spend time together.