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seafood dinner

seafood dinner

1 1.0
A meal of fish and shellfish for the main course
  • noun
translation icon : cena de mariscos
  • I will smash your face into a car windshield and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again!

Examples

  • And seafood dinner, that's a good one.

  • We ate seafood dinners at Gladstone's.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • What do you say I treat you guys to a fresh seafood dinner?

  • Drew had taken her to a wonderful seafood dinner and a show in Lubbock.

  • Who wouldn't enjoy sitting down to a delicious seafood dinner of fresh spiny lobster and tasty snapper?

Synonyms

fish
vsseafood dinner
805 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

includes that flesh but also shell creatures in a main meal
seafood
vsseafood dinner
111 1.0

Animals from the sea that people eat, like fish and shellfish

is a full meal made mainly from those edible sea creatures
seafood buffet
vsseafood dinner
2 2.7

A meal with many seafood dishes that people serve themselves

is served as a plated main course rather than self-service

How Big

seafood dinner
1 1.0
snack
471 1.0

Surface Forms

seafood dinner singular
seafood dinners plural

Morphology

seafood + dinner

The meaning of 'seafood dinner' is directly compositional: 'seafood' (edible marine animals) combined with 'dinner' (a main meal) yields a meal consisting mainly of seafood. This follows a common noun + noun construction found across languages and is immediately predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Seafood dinner comes from putting the words seafood, meaning food from the sea like fish and shellfish, and dinner, meaning the main evening meal, together. Picture a table full of fish, shrimp and lobster, so it means 'a meal made mainly of fish and shellfish'.