dinner
/ˈdɪnɚ/ noun A1- The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. · I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
- An evening meal. · I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.· Do I have to change for dinner?
- A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
- A meal given to an animal. · Give the dog its dinner.
- A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
- The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
Plural dinners
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It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp.
“So that what we presumed to be merely the betrothal feast turns out to be the actual wedding dinner!” said Danglars.
“My grandfather was at that time the King of the Winged Monkeys which lived in the forest near Gayelette’s palace, and the old fellow loved a joke better than a good dinner.
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