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Definition: Dinner |
DinnerNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dinner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
General | Evening meal for a group; not usually ceremonial. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Dinner (Waiting for). The "mauvais quart d'heure. " Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dinner is a term with several meanings.In North America, dinner is a synonym of supper - that is, a large evening meal.
In parts of Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, dinner can be a synonym of lunch.
A more general definition of "dinner," especially outside North America, is any meal consisting of multiple courses. The minimum is usually two but here can be as many as seven. Possible courses are:
Some confusion is caused by the word entrée, which is used in America for the main course, but which was originally one of the earlier courses (most likely the fish course, when the main dish was red meat). In Quebec les entrées are the appetizers; it's no doubt used differently in other places.
- Hors d'oeuvres (also known as Appetisers, Starters)
- Soup course
- Fish course
- Salad course
- Main course (also known as Meat course)
- Dessert course (also known as the Sweet or Pudding course)
- Cheese course
Dinner is generally followed by tea or coffee, sometimes served with mint chocolates or other sweets, or with brandy or a digestif. When dinner consists of many courses, these tend to be smaller and to be served over a longer time period than a dinner with only two or three courses. Dinners with many courses tend to occur at formal events such as dinner parties or banquets.
The meal is generally served in the evening, starting some time between 7:30 and 8:30 (in the Netherlands typically at 6:00). It may be served at midday or shortly afterwards. However this tends to be more common practice in Scotland than in other countries.
See also: breakfast, lunch, high tea, supper;
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lunch is a meal that is taken at noon or in the early afternoon. The term is short for "luncheon" (see below). Lunch is sometimes called "dinner" in Great Britain and parts of the United States and Canada.Lunch food varies. In some places, very similar things are eaten at lunch as at dinner - a hot meal, sometimes with more than one course. In other places, lunch is actually the main meal of the day, supper being a smaller cold meal. However, since many people eat lunch while at work or school, this can be impractical; more appropriate are relatively simple foods that can be packed in a lunch box. The quintessential lunch food in North America is the sandwich.
Employers and schools usually provide a lunch break in the middle of the day, lasting as much as an hour.
Lunch can often be served as entertainment, especially on weekends; a particularly fancy or formal lunch can be called a luncheon. Such lunches can be served at a restaurant, as a buffet or potluck, or as a sit-down feast. These events are very similar to festive suppers.
Lunch, both simple and fancy, often includes dessert.
Many nutritionists suggest that it is more appropriate to eat a large meal at lunch than it is to do so at supper, just prior to going to sleep, when the energy from the meal will not be properly used.
Continental French for "lunch" is déjeuner, Quebecois French is dîner; in Spanish it is almuerzo, in Italian it is pranzo, in German it is Mittagessen, and in Esperanto it is tagmanĝo (or lunĉo).
See breakfast, brunch, elevenses, high tea, supper, and dessert.
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Synonym: DinnerSynonym: dinner party (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
Sociality | Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai; wedding reception. |
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Screenplays | Do you think maybe you wanna maybe, I don't know, go out to dinner, you know, catch up on old times (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) Would you like to come to dinner with Larry and me (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) What's for dinner tonight (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson) If you hurry home we can have dinner together (Terminator 2: Judgment Day; writing credit: James Cameron; William Wisher Jr.) Dinner wasn't that bad. (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.) | |
Lyrics | I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) Used to go to dinner almost every night (What Have You Done For Me Lately; performing artist: Janet Jackson) Dinner it was fine but i can't lie cause (We Fit Together; performing artist: O-Town) Guess we'll never make our dinner date (Just Another Day In Paradise; performing artist: Phil Vassar) | |
Clever | Oregon: Spotted Owl ... It's What's For Dinner (references; author: unknown) Note on a door: Out to lunch. If not back by five, out for dinner also. (references; author: unknown) You are an engineer if your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner. (references; author: unknown) You're trailer trash when you let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) The Long Christmas Dinner (1967) Der 90. Geburtstag oder Dinner for One (1963) The Bird Who Came to Dinner (1961) | |
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 | A dinner is set up on black, gold-rimmed dishes on a black tabletop. There is a mug, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a plate full of green beans, small potatoes and roast beef. A dark multicolored napkin with gold thread is curved around the plate. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Clam chowder for dinner tonight!. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Laysan ducks waddling through their dinner of Laysan flies. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | H. Arnold Karo and President Dwight David Eisenhower 150th Anniversary Dinner of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "Soup's on!" - family dinner in the field Maurice A. Hecht on the right Triangulation party of Maurice A. Hecht. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Preparing Maryland Blue Crabs for the dinner table. Passing on the knowledge of the Chesapeake Bay from generation to generation. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A Great Blue Heron waits patiently for dinner along a mangrove shoreline. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Fishing for dinner in a tidal stream. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Dining out - a family dinner next to the Point Judith lobster boats. Credit: Fisheries. |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. A black-necked stilt hunting for its dinner. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Sissi after Dinner" by Andi Teuscher Commentary: "Sissi cleaning herself with her huge tongue." | "Dinner minute about" by Pawel Smolenski Commentary: "Empty white plate, metal fork and knife." |
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 | Butler ringing a small bell held in the hand to announce that dinner is served. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. |
Jean De La BruyFre | A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. |
Joey Adams | After a meal in a posh restaurant -- you feel like an after dinner mint -- the one in Denver. |
Oscar Wilde | Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. |
Samuel Pepys | Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. |
Theodore Roosevelt | I generally have people in to lunch, but at dinner, thank fortune, we are usually alone. |
Walter Bagehot | Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. |
Whately | Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. |
William M. Thackeray | Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | By this time I was so hopelessly confused that I gave up listening, and followed the dinner down into the kitchen |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | I have come to dinner. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors, and never invite them round to dinner. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The dinner, as we have said, was over |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | One evening his father came home full of news which kept his tongue busy all through dinner. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Nay, like enough, for I stay dinner there |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The children without dinner changed them, the endless moving changed them |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought in dinner. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly |
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Health | Mefloquine should be taken on a full stomach, for example, after dinner. (references) | |
Set aside time after breakfast or dinner for undisturbed visits to the toilet. (references) | ||
Chloroquine should be taken on a full stomach, for example, after dinner, to lessen nausea. (references) | ||
Business | The major international credit card companies like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Dinner Club, JCB are also in the Chinese credit card market. (references) | |
The media will respond to a lunch or dinner invitation or attend a reception if they believe that they will be given information that will justify their presence. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Prior to December, when the President hosted a Christmas dinner and prominent Christian leaders were invited to take part in some televised debates on politics, religious minorities reported less interaction with the Government during the year and less responsiveness to their demands. (references) |
Turkey | In November an Istanbul NGO hosted an Iftaar dinner attended by the head of the Diyanet, the Armenian and Greek Orthodox Patriarchs, the Chief Rabbi, and the heads of the Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Bulgarian, Anglican and other Protestant churches, with the theme of brotherhood and tolerance. (references) | |
Economic History | Cyprus | The U.S. embassy in Nicosia sponsors a popular pavilion for American products at the annual Cyprus International State Fair, hosts the Commercial Awards dinner, and organizes other events to promote U.S. products throughout the year. (references) |
Human Rights | Vietnam | They are given one small bowl of rice for lunch and dinner and a single bucket of water each day. (references) |
Guatemala | Judge Barrios, her elderly mother, and a family friend were having dinner indoors when the explosion took place, and no one was injured. (references) | |
Pakistan | One Christian human rights organization complained in January and in April of harassing visits and telephone calls by government officials after it hosted a dinner for two members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in December 2000. The government officials, who presented identification, made repeated requests for information about the NGO's contacts with foreign individuals and organizations. (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | Dinner meetings tend to be less formal. (references) |
Philippines | A guest speaker is often the highlight of the dinner. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Since 1997, the AmCham has hosted an annual American Ambassador's Dinner. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before." |
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Cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | This friend wondered if you're not doing anything, you know, Saturday night, if you would like to have dinner. At her place. |
Dennis Miller | People get pissed off when their microwave dinner takes more than three minutes to cook. |
Mark Shields | Thursday night in New York City at a political dinner, Vice President Cheney had some criticism for those who are raising questions. Let's look at it. |
Maureen O'Hara | Well, every time Charlie Blair flew into L.A., he would call my brother, Charlie, and they would go off and have dinner. |
William Shatner | That's all it is. It's Dinner at Andre's. It's conversation on the most intimate subjects by two people who have known each other half their life. |
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| "Dinner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Dinner" is used about 6,289 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.97% | 6,287 | 1,546 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,289 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dinner": a capital dinner ♦ ask smb. to dinner ♦ at dinner ♦ basket dinner ♦ be at dinner ♦ boiled dinner ♦ buffet dinner ♦ business dinner ♦ candlelit dinner ♦ company of dinner guests ♦ dinner bell ♦ dinner bucket ♦ dinner coat ♦ dinner dance ♦ dinner dress ♦ dinner gown ♦ dinner is served ♦ dinner jacket ♦ dinner meeting ♦ dinner napkin ♦ dinner pail ♦ dinner party ♦ dinner plate ♦ dinner roll ♦ dinner service ♦ dinner set ♦ dinner table ♦ dinner time ♦ dinner trolley ♦ dinner wagon ♦ dogs dinner ♦ done up like a dog's dinner ♦ eat dinner ♦ eat his dinner ♦ entertain smb. to dinner ♦ entertain to dinner ♦ farewell dinner ♦ give a dinner ♦ give one a good dinner ♦ go out to dinner ♦ good dinner ♦ have a dinner ♦ have dinner ♦ have dinner with smb. ♦ have relatives for dinner ♦ house dinner ♦ invitation for dinner ♦ lunch a dinner ♦ men's dinner party ♦ new England boiled dinner ♦ pickup dinner ♦ protracted dinner ♦ set dinner ♦ shore dinner ♦ stay to dinner ♦ subscription dinner ♦ thanksgiving Day Dinner ♦ tv dinner ♦ working dinner. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dinner": dinner-bell, dinner-cabaret, dinner-dance, dinner-dates, dinner-eaters, dinner-gong, dinner-guest, dinner-guests, dinner-hostess, dinner-hour, dinner-jacket, dinner-jacketed, dinner-jackets, dinner-parties, dinner-party, dinner-plate, dinner-plates, dinner-service, dinner-size, dinner-table, dinner-tables, dinner-the, dinner-things, dinner-time, dinner-tray, dinner-waiting. | |
Ending with "dinner": pre-dinner. | |
Containing "dinner": after-dinner speech, bride's-dinner-party, Doris-the-dinner-lady, pre-after-dinner-speech, tv-dinner-trays. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dinner | 1,075 | medieval times dinner | 111 |
thanksgiving dinner | 1,052 | murder mystery dinner | 101 |
easter dinner | 1,039 | quick dinner recipe | 98 |
romantic dinner | 935 | dinner dream | 92 |
graduation dinner | 527 | guess whos coming to dinner | 91 |
dinner grad | 484 | wedding rehearsal dinner | 91 |
dinner recipe | 429 | dinner menu | 87 |
dinner theater | 367 | boulder dinner theater | 87 |
chanhassen dinner theater | 335 | whats for dinner | 84 |
rehearsal dinner invitation | 303 | dinner prayer | 82 |
dinner cruise | 276 | medieval times dinner and theater | 81 |
dinner idea | 207 | mystery dinner | 81 |
rehearsal dinner | 181 | dinner cruise new york | 80 |
dinner party | 162 | carousel dinner theater | 79 |
easy dinner recipe | 156 | chicago cruise dinner | 76 |
dinner and a movie | 143 | dinner and show | 75 |
dinner plate | 135 | murder mystery dinner theater | 71 |
medieval times dinner tournament | 125 | dinner club | 66 |
spirit of washington dinner train | 119 | dinner theater tobys | 66 |
dinner train | 112 | medieval times dinner show | 66 |
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| Language | Translations for "dinner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | middagete (midday, midday meal), dinee (midday, midday meal). (various references) | |
Albanian | drekë (lunch, luncheon, Luncheonette, nooning), ha drekë (dine, have dinner, lunch). (various references) | |
Arabic | وجبة الطعام الرئيسية, عشاء (dine, supper). (various references) | |
Asturian | cena. (various references) | |
Basque | afari. (various references) | |
Bavarian | dogddessn (midday meal). (various references) | |
Bemba | umulalilo. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | таблдот, вечерям (dine, eat dinner, have dinner, have supper, sup), вечеря (supper), обядвам (dine, lunch, tiffin), общо меню (ordinary), обед (lunch, midday, noon), банкет (banquet, do, feast). (various references) | |
Cebuano | panihapon. (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma fatinas i sena (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Chinese | 晚饭 (supper), 晚餐 (evening meal). (various references) | |
Cornish | kynyow. (various references) | |
Czech | večeře, veèeře (supper, tea), obìd (lunch), hostina (banquet, feast, junket, regale, spread, symposium), hlavní jídlo dne. (various references) | |
Danish | middag (midday, midday meal, noon). (various references) | |
Dutch | diner (midday meal), middagmaal (midday meal), middageten (midday meal). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | chishi micui. (various references) | |
Esperanto | tagmanĝo (midday meal). (various references) | |
Faeroese | døgurði. (various references) | |
Farsi | مهمانی (Banquet, Cocktail, Party, Reception, Regale), ناهار (Lunch, Luncheon, Meat, Nooning), شام (Meat, Supper). (various references) | |
Finnish | päivällinen, päivälleen, on ruoalla (is having lunch). (various references) | |
French | dîner (dine), diner (dine). (various references) | |
Frisian | waarm miel. (various references) | |
German | Abendessen (evening meal, supper, suppers), Mahl (meal, repast), festessen (banquet, feast, spread), diner (luncheon, midday meal). (various references) | |
Greek | δείπνο (supper). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פת ערבית, ארוחת ערב (high tea, supper), ארוחת צוהריים, ארוחת צהרים (lunch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vacsora (supper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | makan malam (sup, supper). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | niri. (various references) | |
Irish | dinnéar, dhinnéar. (various references) | |
Italian | pranzo (lunch, luncheon, repast), desinare (dine, lunch, luncheons, lunches), colazione (breakfast, collation, lunch, luncheon, midday, midday meal), cena (evening meal, supper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss), 晩餐 , 晩飯 , 晩飯 , 晩御飯 (evening meal), 晩ご飯 (evening meal), 供宴 (banquet), 夕餉 (evening meal, supper), 夕食 , 夕食 (evening meal), 午餐 (lunch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ディナー , きょうえん (appearing together, banquet, co-acting, co-starring, feast, recital contest), ばんさん, ばんごはん (evening meal), ばんめし, ごさん (lunch, miscalculation), ゆうしょく (anxious look, assisting at dinner, colored, dining with a superior, evening meal, gloom, holding a job, knowlegeable, learned, living in idleness, melancholy air, traces of sorrow, well-versed in usages or practices of the court or military households), ゆうげ (evening meal, supper). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-lamba madia (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Korean | 정찬. (various references) | |
Luganda | eky'eggulo (for dinner). (various references) | |
Macedonian | vechera. (various references) | |
Manx | jinnair. (various references) | |
Norwegian | middag (midday, midday meal, noon). (various references) | |
Occitan | sopar (lo). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innerday.(various references) | |
Polish | obiad (midday meal). (various references) | |
Portuguese | jantar (dine, dining, have dinner, midday meal). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | jantar (to have dinner). (various references) | |
Provencal | sopar. (various references) | |
Romanian | dineu (dinner party), prânz substanţial, masã (avoirdupois, block, board, body, bulk, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dusty treat, feast, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, repast, shoal, table, throng, tuck in), cinã (evening meal, supper). (various references) | |
Romansch | tschanar (to have dinner). (various references) | |
Ruanda | gutegura ibiryo (to prepare dinner). (various references) | |
Russian | обед (brunch, lunch, luncheon). (various references) | |
Samoan | aiga o le afiafi. (various references) | |
Scottish | dinneir. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | večerati (eat, eat dinner, have dinner, have supper), večera (supper). (various references) | |
Sicilian | cena. (various references) | |
Spanish | cena (dinner party, evening, evening meal, gums, midday meal, supper), comida (chow, cuisine, dining, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, Frankfurter, grub, lunch, luncheon, meal, midday meal, nosh, provender, repast, scoff, scoffing). (various references) | |
Swedish | middag (afternoon, lunch, midday, noon). (various references) | |
Thai | อาหารมื้อเย็น, งานเลี้ยงอาหารค่ำ. (various references) | |
Tswana | selalelo, maitse. (various references) | |
Turkish | ziyafet (banquet, beanfeast, beano, dinner party, entertainment, feast, junket, spread, treat), yemek (chow, crop, dine off, dine on, dish, eat, feed, food, grub, ingest, meal, Peck, repast, scoff, scran), akşam yemeği (supper). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gьnortanlyk nahar (lunch), agюamlyk nahar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | частувати обідом (dine), обідати (dine, have a dinner, have dinner), обід (chow, felloe, hoop, rim). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiệc chiêu đãi. (various references) | |
Welsh | cinio. (various references) | |
Wolof | reer. (various references) | |
Xhosa | idinara. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cena, epulae, epularum, epulas, epulis, prandium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kreisswn xenismoV lacanwn proV filian kai carin h paraqesiV moscwn meta ecqraV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Melius est vocare ad holera cum caritate quam ad vitulum saginatum cum odio |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Betere is to be clepid to wrtis with charite, than to a fat calf with hate. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Maayo pa ang usa ka paniudto sa mga utanon, diin anaa ang gugma, Kay sa linaming nga vaca ug ang pagdumot anaa niana. |
| Chinese | 喫 素 菜 、 彼 此 相 愛 、 強 如 喫 肥 牛 、 彼 此 相 恨 。 |
| Croatian | Bolji je obrok povræa gdje je ljubav nego od utovljena vola gdje je mržnja. |
| Danish | Bedre en Ret Grønt med Kærlighed end fedet Okse og Had derhos. |
| Dutch | Beter is een gerecht van groen moes, waar ook liefde is, dan een gemeste os, en haat daarbij. |
| Finnish | Parempi vihannesruoka rakkaudessa kuin syöttöhärkä vihassa. |
| German | Es ist besser ein Gericht Kraut mit Liebe, denn ein gemästeter Ochse mit Haß. |
| Haitian Creole | Pito ou manje mayi moulen blanch ak moun ki renmen ou pase pou ou manje vyann ou byen gra ak moun ki rayi ou. |
| Hungarian | Jobb a paréjnak étele, a hol szeretet van, mint a hízlalt ökör, a hol van gyûlölség. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lebih baik makan sayur tapi disertai cinta kasih, daripada makan daging lezat tapi disertai kebencian. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Makanan sayur-sayur belaka, tetapi disertakan kasih, itu terlebih baik dari pada lembu tambun yang disertakan dengki. |
| Italian | Un piatto di verdura con l'amore è meglio di un bue grasso con l'odio. |
| Maori | He pai ake te tina puwha ko te aroha hei kinaki, i te kau whangai e kinakitia ana ki te mauahara. |
| Norwegian | Bedre er en rett grønt med kjærlighet enn en fet okse med hat. |
| Rumanian | Mai bine un prknz de verdeyuri, wi dragoste, de ckt un bou kngrqwat, wi urq. - |
| Russian | мХЮЫЕ ВМАДП ЪЕМЕОЙ, Й РТЙ ОЕН МАВПЧШ, ОЕЦЕМЙ ПФЛПТНМЕООЩК ВЩЛ, Й РТЙ ОЕН ОЕОБЧЙУФШ. |
| Spanish | Mejor es una comida de verduras donde hay amor que de buey engordado donde hay odio. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dinner": dinnerless, dinners, dinnertime, dinnertimes, dinnerware, dinnerwares. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dinner": predinner. (additional references) | |
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"Dinner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dainfern, damner, deener, Dehner, Demner, Denenberg, Diener, dinea, dinen, dinery, dinir, dinnce, dinne, dinnel, dinnet, Dinney, Dinno, Dinyar, Donnar, donner, donnerd, donnery, donnker, duner, dunnart, Dunner, Dunnery, kinner, rinner, zinner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dinner" (pronounced di"ner) |
| 3 | -i" n er | beginner, inner, Pinner, sinner, Skinner, spinner, thinner, winner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: endrin. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: diner, inned, inner, renin. | |
-2 letters: deni, dine, dire, ired, nerd, nide, nine, rein, rend, ride, rind. | |
-3 letters: den, die, din, end, ern, inn, ire, red, rei, rid, rin. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, id, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: dinners, endrins, grinned, inurned, nardine, rending. | |
+2 letters: crannied, donniker, endbrain, enduring, indenter, indentor, inlander, innerved, insnared, intender, interned, inturned, nidering, rendzina, repinned, trending, underpin, unironed, unkinder, unrinsed, unwinder. | |
+3 letters: burdening, cindering, dandering, dangering, darkening, decerning, dehorning, deranging, donnicker, donnikers, drenching, endbrains, endearing, endocrine, endorphin, endorsing, engirding, engrained, enshrined, entrained, environed, friending, gandering, gardening, gendering, grenadine, hardening, hindering, hindrance, indenters, indentors, indenture, infringed, ingrained, inlanders, inshrined, integrand, intenders, interlend, internode, inthroned, netminder, niderings, noncredit, nondriver, ordinance, pandering, pondering, predinner, rebinding, reddening, redenying, redlining, redonning, refinding, refunding, relending, remanding, remending, reminding, rendering, rendition, rendzinas, resending, rewinding, sundering, tendering, underlain, underline, underling, undermine, underpins, underspin, underwing, undrained, unhandier, uninjured, uninsured, unrefined, unripened, untrained, unwinders, wandering, wondering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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