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dinner-time

dinner-time is the alternative spelling of dinnertime.

Meaning of dinnertime

Noun

dinnertime (countable and uncountable, plural dinnertimes)

  1. The time when dinner takes place, as
    • An hour before dinnertime, steam the mazarine in the usual way, and when done, turn it out of the mould on its dish […]1846, Charles Elmé Francatelli, The Modern Cook, page 243
  2. (UK) The midday mealtime as the main one: lunchtime.
  3. The evening mealtime as the main one: suppertime.

Forms of dinner-time

pluraldinner-times

Questions about dinner-time

What is dinner-time the alternative spelling of?
Dinner-time is the alternative spelling of dinnertime.

Words near dinner-time in the dictionary

  1. dinner-lady arms
  2. dinner-parties
  3. dinner-party
  4. dinner-table
  5. dinner-tables
  6. dinner-time
  7. dinner-times
  8. dinnerbone
  9. dinnerboned
  10. dinnerboning
  11. dinnered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dinner-time (page history and authors); dinnertime (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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