dinner vs diner vs supper
Definitions
noun
- the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
- 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.
Ann rather astonished me by saying how she wouldn't mind a plate of egg and chips prior to leaving for the dinner.
A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?
Definitions
noun
- a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
- a passenger car where food is served in transit
- 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.
It reopened, but diners have remained in the dark about the deplorable hygiene standards.
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.
Definitions
noun
- a social gathering where a light evening meal is served
- 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.
