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
   • If the dinner party does become extinct, I will mourn its passing. I like having them, and I love being invited to them.2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   guestmeal