supper
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈsʌpər/
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cena
- We're having a light supper on the porch while we watch the sunset.
- prepare supper
- a late supper
- an evening supper
Now you got to fight for supper at home with your kid.
- Now you got to fight for supper at home with your kid.
- These guys, you know, tomorrow exists and you know what, next Wednesday that exists and would you like to come over for supper the following Monday?
- And all I need to know, Sir, from you is if you could have anybody from history, alive or dead, over for supper, which would you prefer?
- And that sort of took me back to when I liked helping my mum and dad when they had people around for supper.
- I was just wondering why we weren't able to get a fish supper from the van or why we weren't able to get, you know, ice cream, things like that.
- And he's had his Last Supper three times and every time he has shared it with the guards.
Examples
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But I declined to join them for a seafood supper at the Brass Pelican.
Fiction book (1990) -
We can stop on the turnpike for some supper, and we'll be home by midnight.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then how about a movie and an early supper tomorrow before you come to work?
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"We could just go on in the kitchen and eat supper and forget the whole thing.
Fiction book (1990) -
Just in time for supper.
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I bet you she'd be glad to see you come home early for supper.
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One evening, Jackson was starting to cook supper and felt like he had a headache coming on.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you invite me for supper, I will invite you back for couscous.
Academic text (2008) -
I've had my supper.
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I'd phone Janelle and we'd grab supper at Shoney's, see a movie, or walk around the mall.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
A time when people eat, for example breakfast or dinner
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A formal meal in the evening where people meet for social or business reasons
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8.2
A simple meal or food eaten casually
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1.8
A small quick meal or snack
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
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A final meal Jesus ate with his disciples before he was killed on a cross
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7.7
A Christian ceremony where people share bread and wine to remember the meal Jesus had before he died
A special family meal on the first night of Passover with traditional foods and rituals
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word supper comes from an old word for soup and sop, where a sop was a piece of bread 'soaked' in broth. Because people often ate these light soups and soaked bread in the evening, supper came to mean the light evening meal we use today.