dinner

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪnə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"dIn@/
• (US) enPR: dĭnʹər, IPA: /ˈdɪnɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"dIn@`

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• Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: din‧ner

Etymology

From Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”).

Noun

dinner (countable and uncountable; plural dinners)

1. The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
2. An evening meal.
3. A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
4. A meal given to an animal.
   • Give the dog its dinner.
5. A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, The Celebrity^[1]:

     When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

6. (uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.

Usage notes

• There are differences in usage according to the social class of the speaker. Working-class and lower-middle-class speakers in Britain, for example, are more likely to refer to the midday meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "tea" rather than "supper". Some speakers use common collocations of dinner such as school dinner, Sunday dinner and Christmas dinner to describe meals that they wouldn't otherwise call a dinner.

Synonyms

• (an evening meal): supper
• (meal given to an animal): chow
• (midday meal): lunch, luncheon
• (formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion): banquet, luncheon

Derived terms

Terms derived from dinner

after-dinner speech after-dinner basket dinner Christmas dinner dinner dance dinner fork dinner guest dinner jacket dinner knife dinner lady dinner party dinner plate

dinner ring dinner roll dinner service dinner table dinner time dinnerware done up like a dog's dinner potluck dinner school dinner Sunday dinner TV dinner

Related terms

• dine

Translations

main meal of the day

• Arabic: عَشاء (ar) (3ashaa')

  Egyptian Arabic: عشاء (3ashaa')

• Armenian: ճաշ (hy) (č̣aš)
• Basque: afari (eu)
• Bulgarian: вечеря (bg) (večerja) f
• Cantonese: 晚飯 (maan⁵faan⁶)
• Czech: oběd (cs) m (in Czech the midday meal is the main meal), večeře (cs) f (eaten in the evening)
• Danish: middag (da)
• Dutch: avondeten (nl) n, avondmaaltijd (nl) m, avondmaal (nl) n, eten (nl) n
• Filipino: hapunan (tl)
• Finnish: päivällinen (fi), illallinen (fi)
• French: dîner (fr) m, (Belgium, Cajun, Swiss and Canadian French -in Belgium, Louisiana, Romandy and Quebec, "dîner" means "lunch") souper (fr) m
• Gan: 夜飯 (ya⁵ fan⁵) (eaten in the evening)
• German: Hauptmahlzeit (de) f
• Greek: φαγητό (el) (fagitó) n, κύριο γεύμα (el) (kýrio gévma) n
• Hungarian: vacsora (hu) (eaten in the evening), ebéd (hu) (in Hungary the midday meal is the main meal)
• Icelandic: kvöldmatur (is) m
• Ido: dineo (io)
• Irish: dinnéar (ga) m
• Italian: cena (it) f
• Japanese: 夕食 (ja) (ゆうしょく, yūshoku) (eaten in the evening)
• Korean: 저녁 (ko) (jeonyeog)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: şîv (ku) f

• Latin: cēna (la) f
• Latvian: pusdienas (lv) f pl (in Latvia the midday meal is the main meal)
• Lithuanian: vakarienė (lt) f (eaten in the evening, but the midday meal is the main meal)
• Macedonian: вечера (mk) (véčera) f (eaten in the evening)
• Maltese: ċena (mt) f
• Mandarin: 晚饭 (cmn) (wănfàn), 晚餐 (cmn) (wăncān) (eaten in the evening)
• Mongolian: оройн хоол (mn) (orojn hool)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: middag (no)

• Occitan: sopar (oc) m
• Polish: obiad (pl) m
• Portuguese: jantar (pt)
• Romanian: cină (ro), masă de seară (ro) f
• Russian: ужин (ru) (úžin) m (eaten in the evening, but the midday meal is the main meal)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вечера (sh) f (eaten in the evening)

  Roman: večera (sh) f (eaten in the evening)

• Slovak: večera (sk) f (eaten in the evening, but the midday meal is the main meal)
• Slovene: večerja (sl) f (eaten in the evening)
• Spanish: cena (es) f
• Swedish: middag (sv) c
• Tagalog: hapunan (tl)
• Vietnamese: bữa trưa (vi) (eaten at midday), bữa chiều (vi) (eaten in the evening), bữa tối (vi) (eaten in the evening)
• Yola: dineare

a meal given to an animal

• Bulgarian: хранене (bg) (chranene) n
• Czech: žrádlo (cs) n, krmení (cs) n, šlichta (cs) f (of soup consistence)
• Dutch: voer (nl)
• Finnish: ruoka (fi)
• German: Futter (de) n

• Greek: τροφή (el) (trofí) f
• Lithuanian: ėdalas (lt) m, jovalas (lt) m (of soup consistence)
• Mongolian: амьтны хоол (mn) (am'tny hool)
• Romanian: nutreț (ro) n

midday meal

• Armenian: ճաշ (hy) (č̣aš)
• Bulgarian: обед (bg) (obed) m
• Czech: oběd (cs) m
• Danish: middag (da)
• Dutch: middageten (nl) n, middagmaaltijd (nl) m, middagmaal (nl) n, lunch (nl) m
• Finnish: lounas (fi), päivällinen (fi)
• French: déjeuner (fr) m, dîner (fr) (Belgium, Cajun, Swiss, Canadian, Louisiana and Romandy French)
• Gan: 昼飯 (jiu⁴ fan⁵)
• German: Mittagessen (de) n
• Greek: γεύμα (el) (gévma) n, μεσημεριανό (el) (mesimerianó) n
• Hebrew: ארוחת-ערב (he) (arukhát érev)

• Hungarian: ebéd (hu)
• Irish: dinnéar (ga) m
• Italian: pranzo (it) m
• Japanese: 昼食 (ja) (ちゅうしょく, chūshoku), 昼飯 (ja) (ひるめし, hirumeshi)
• Latvian: pusdienas (lv) f pl
• Lithuanian: pietūs (lt) m pl
• Macedonian: ручек (mk) (rúček) m
• Maltese: pranzu (mt) m
• Mongolian: өдрийн хоол (mn) (ôdrijn hool), үдийн хоол (mn) (ùdijn hool)
• Romanian: prânz (ro) n
• Russian: обед (ru) (ob'éd) m

a formal meal

• Armenian: ճաշ (hy) (č̣aš)
• Bulgarian: банкет (bg) (banket) m
• Czech: oběd (cs) m, večeře (cs) f
• Dutch: dinee (nl) n
• Finnish: illallinen (fi), päivällinen (fi)
• Greek: (taking place in noon) γεύμα (el) (gévma) n, (taking place in late afternoon) δείπνο (el) (deípno) n

• Irish: dinnéar (ga) m
• Japanese: 正餐 (ja) (せいさん, seisan)
• Mongolian: цайллага (mn) (cajllaga), дайллага (mn) (dajllaga)
• Polish: bankiet (pl) m
• Romanian: banchet (ro) n, dineu (ro) n
• Slovene: večerja (sl) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: غذاء (ar) (ğaðá:’)
• Breton: koan (br) f
• Catalan: sopar (ca) m
• Interlingua: dinar (ia), cena (ia)
• Korean: 정 식사 (ko) (jeong siksa)
• Portuguese: jantar (pt) m, ceia (pt) f
• Sindhi: سانجھاندو (sd) (sanjhando) m
• Spanish: cena (es) f

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: sit · considerable · private · #768: dinner · command · etc. · broke

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