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supper-time

supper-time is the alternative form of suppertime.

Meaning of suppertime

Noun

suppertime (countable and uncountable, plural suppertimes)

  1. The time when supper takes place.
    • Lacy couldn’t spell good but in big pencil letters he wrote that he had to go downtown and would be back before suppertime.2006, Charles Davis, Angel’s Rest, Don Mills, Ont.: MIRA Books, →ISBN, page 143
  2. The time when supper is ready.

Forms of supper-time

pluralsupper-times

Questions about supper-time

What is supper-time the alternative form of?
Supper-time is the alternative form of suppertime.

Words near supper-time in the dictionary

  1. supper hours
  2. supper time
  3. supper times
  4. supper-hour
  5. supper-hours
  6. supper-time
  7. supper-times
  8. supperclub
  9. supperclubs
  10. suppered
  11. suppering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supper-time (page history and authors); suppertime (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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