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UK
/dˈaɪnɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdaɪnɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdaɪnɝ/ ]
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
How To Use diner In A Sentence
- 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.
- Like a diner spearing a morsel of food with the tine of a fork, researchers have used the tip of a microscopic needle to lift a single atom from a surface and then replace it.
- The neon chicken radiates orange warmth into the sparsely populated diner.
- Mrs. Babbit would bring a pot of the "Soup of the Day" from the adjoining diner for the maids to enjoy with whatever oddment they had brought from home to eat. Everyday Things Made Beautiful
- We walk about six blocks to a restaurant, more like a diner really, and find a booth.
- My wife's breasts are neither the seat of my sexual gratification nor an open-all-night diner for the latest nursling.
- Les Deli-cieux, on the rooftop of Printemps, draws in diners with its view of sweeping vistas. Dining in Paris Department Stores
- As diners savoured their delicious Chocolate marquise and sipped their coffee and tea, the ballroom's lights dimmed and the audience stilled as the evening's program began.