dinner

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What she termed her dinner was a very uncertain affair.

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  1. noun The chief meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
  2. noun A banquet or formal meal in honor of a person or event.
  3. noun The food prepared for either of these meals.

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  • With her dinner was a universal panacea, but Von Barwig declined with many thanks. —  The Music Master Novelized from the Play
  • To be invited to this dinner was an event. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
  • And they need not have doubted him, for, since his salary did not begin until his return to Crowheart, and the offerings of night-lunch carts are taxing upon the digestion, it was indeed "good to be home VII THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS Andy P. Symes decided to emphasize further his return to Crowheart by issuing invitations for a dinner to be given in the Terriberry House, reserving the announcement of his future plans for this occasion; and, although Crowheart did not realize it at the time, this dinner was an epoch-making function. —  The Lady Doc
  • The fact that the dinner was at seven instead of twelve o'clock, noon, occasioned much hilarity among the uninvited while the invited guests were more than delighted at the fashionable hour. —  The Lady Doc
  • A dinner-party is so arranged, that the dinners received from others are returned to them, and they cannot afford to ask a couple who cannot give them a dinner in return, as they would fill up the places of others to whom a dinner is due, and who, if not asked then, must be at another time; and an extra dinner is an extra expense to be avoided. —  Olla Podrida
 

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  1. Middle English diner, morning meal, from Old French disner, diner, to dine, morning meal; see dine.

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  1. from Middle English diner, dyner, from Old French disner, dinner, or rather breakfast, French dîner, dinner; properly infinitive, Old French disner, French diner, dine, used as a noun: see dine.
  2. from dinner, n.
 

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