Dinner
['dɪnə] or ['dɪnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a party of people assembled to have dinner together; 'guests should never be late to a dinner party'.
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Definition
(n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
(n.) An entertainment; a feast.
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Definition
n. the chief meal of the day: a feast.—ns. Dinnerette′ a little dinner; Dinn′er-hour.—adj. Dinn′erless.—ns. Dinn′er-tā′ble; Dinn′er-time; Dinn′er-wag′on a set of light movable shelves for a dining-room.
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To dream that you eat your dinner alone, denotes that you will often have cause to think seriously of the necessaries of life. For a young woman to dream of taking dinner with her lover, is indicative of a lovers' quarrel or a rupture, unless the affair is one of harmonious pleasure, when the reverse may be expected. To be one of many invited guests at a dinner, denotes that you will enjoy the hospitalities of those who are able to extend to you many pleasant courtesies.
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Examples
- Do you mean to join us at dinner? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Dick handed me down to dinner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My Lady Steyne, he said, once more will you have the goodness to go to the desk and write that card for your dinner on Friday? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As she pressed me to stay to dinner, I remained, and I believe we talked about nothing but him all day. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He walked into the dining-room as we sat after dinner, and announced his intention in the thick voice of a half-drunken man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She saw nothing more of her uncle, nor of her aunt Norris, till they met at dinner. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund of talent in Bowyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was, as Mrs. Archer smilingly said to Mrs. Welland, a great event for a young couple to give their first big dinner. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mr Merdle issued invitations for a Barnacle dinner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why, what I may think after dinner, returns Mr. Jobling, is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was the dinner-hour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That young tutor is an interesting fellow: we had some awfully good talk after dinner about books and things, he threw out tentatively in the hansom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon, for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- This and similar talk took place at the grand dinners all round. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in--and I hope _my_ dinners are good enough for her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- At all the Sunday dinners of the people, there seemed a strange presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We had one of those celebrated dinners that only Mr. Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He pays their dinners at Greenwich, and they invite the company. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Suppers are not bad if we have not dined; but restless nights naturally follow hearty suppers after full dinners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There aren't ten cooks in England to be trusted at impromptu dinners. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What good dinners you have--game every day, Malmsey-Madeira, and no end of fish from London. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But the upshot is, she gets up glorious dinners, makes superb coffee; and you must judge her as warriors and statesmen are judged, _by her success_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Her Bath habits made evening-parties perfectly natural to her, and Maple Grove had given her a taste for dinners. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The Veneering dinners are excellent dinners--or new people wouldn't come--and all goes well. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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