dinner vs diner vs supper

dinner

Definitions

noun

  1. the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
  2. a party of people assembled to have dinner together

Examples

The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.

The dinner was being hosted by a fledgling company he had set up just months before.

After dinner, the _renvoi_ of Genet was proposed by himself.

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diner

Definitions

noun

  1. a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
  2. a passenger car where food is served in transit
  3. a restaurant that resembles a dining car

Examples

A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.

Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.

A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.

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supper

Definitions

noun

  1. a social gathering where a light evening meal is served
  2. a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

Examples

The Last Supper. The final time that the apostles shared a meal with Jesus.

If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but otherwise she is not pregnant.

Tickets for the event cost only £5 each and that also includes a light supper.

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