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dinner-goer

dinner-goer noun: one who has dinner at a restaurant or as a guest in someone's house.

Noun

dinner-goer (plural dinner-goers)

  1. One who has dinner at a restaurant or as a guest in someone's house.
    • Justice Holmes was a most popular guest and an inveterate dinner-goer.1999, Walter F. Pratt, The Supreme Court Under Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921, →ISBN, page 23
    • Housed in the beached tugboat Danie Hugo near the jetty, the Tug is something of an obligatory destination for any dinner-goer in Swakopmund.2010, Matthew D. Firestone, Adam Karlin, Botswana & Namibia, →ISBN, page 324

Forms of dinner-goer

pluraldinner-goers

Origin of dinner-goer

From dinner + goer.

Questions about dinner-goer

What does dinner-goer mean?
Dinner-goer means one who has dinner at a restaurant or as a guest in someone's house.
What part of speech is dinner-goer?
Dinner-goer is a noun.
What is the plural of dinner-goer?
The plural of dinner-goer is dinner-goers.

Words near dinner-goer in the dictionary

  1. dinner time
  2. dinner times
  3. dinner wagon
  4. dinner wagons
  5. dinner-card
  6. dinner-goer
  7. dinner-goers
  8. dinner-hour
  9. dinner-hours
  10. dinner-jacket
  11. dinner-jacketed

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