dinner-party

Noun

dinner party (plural dinner parties)

1. A relatively formal meal at which invited guests eat in the home of the host.
   • She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches...1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers

   Synonyms:

   guestmeal