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predinner

predinner adjective: occurring before or in preparation for dinner.

Adjective

predinner (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before or in preparation for dinner
    • This makes a perfectly fine predinner cocktail, but it hardly constitutes a balanced meal.2007 August 15, “Letters”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    preprandial

Synonyms of predinner

Origin of predinner

From pre- + dinner.

Questions about predinner

What does predinner mean?
Predinner means occurring before or in preparation for dinner.
What part of speech is predinner?
Predinner is an adjective.

Words near predinner in the dictionary

  1. predimension
  2. predimensions
  3. predimerize
  4. predimerized
  5. preding
  6. predinner
  7. prediphtheritic
  8. prediploma
  9. prediplomatic
  10. predipocyte
  11. predirectional

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