diner
Syllables: di·ner/ˈdaɪ̯nə/US/ˈdaɪ̯nɚ/
diner noun: someone who dines.
Noun (1)
diner (plural diners)
- Someone who dines.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings
- Someone who gives a dinner.
- In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most...1821, “On Collecting”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume I, Original Papers, number III, London: Henry Colburn and Co. […], →OCLC, page 361
- f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m...2004, Will Jones, “Tina from New Mexico: Let Me Tell You ’bout This A**hole…”, in Let Me Tell You ’bout This…, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 145
- A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
- Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner
- Synonyms:
- dining car, restaurant car
- A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.
Noun (2)
diner (plural diners)
- A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
diner meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian
diner in Tamil
- உண்பவர், புகைவண்டி உணவறை, சிறு உணவகம்
diner in Urdu
- ڈائنر
diner in Bengali
- ডাইনার
diner in Indonesian
- a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- kedai makan, warung makan
Examples of diner in a sentence
- The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.
- The train's consist included a baggage car, four passenger cars, and a diner.
- It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.
Synonyms of diner
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Forms of diner
| plural | diners |
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Origin of diner
From dine + -er.
From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.
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Questions about diner
- What does diner mean?
- Diner means someone who dines.
- What is diner in Tamil?
- Diner in Tamil is உண்பவர், புகைவண்டி உணவறை, சிறு உணவகம். See Diner meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is diner?
- Diner is a noun.
- How do you pronounce diner?
- Diner is pronounced /ˈdaɪ̯nə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of diner?
- The plural of diner is diners.
Words near diner in the dictionary
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