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