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diners

diners is the plural of diner.

Meaning of diner

Noun (1)

diner (plural diners)

  1. 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
  2. (rare) 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
  3. 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
  4. (US) 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)

  1. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

Phrases with diners

Questions about diners

What is diners the plural of?
Diners is the plural of diner.

Words near diners in the dictionary

  1. dineric
  2. dineries
  3. dinerlike
  4. dinero
  5. dineros
  6. diners
  7. diners-out
  8. dinery
  9. dines
  10. dines and dashes
  11. dines at the Y

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