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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 tables
  2. dinner theater
  3. dinner theaters
  4. dinner theatre
  5. dinner theatres
  6. dinner time
  7. dinner times
  8. dinner wagon
  9. dinner wagons
  10. dinner-card
  11. dinner-goer

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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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