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dinner

din·ner

UK/ˈdɪnə/ US/ˈdɪnɚ/ very common

noun

1.

the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday

  • “dinner will be at 8”
  • “on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church”
2.

a party of people assembled to have dinner together

  • “guests should never be late to a dinner party”
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Origin

From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”).

Phrases

  • a revolution is not a dinner party
  • after-dinner speech
  • all duck or no dinner
  • bachelor dinner
  • bachelor's dinner
  • basket dinner
  • boiled dinner
  • Burns dinner

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