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suppering

suppering is the present participle and gerund of supper.

Meaning of supper

Verb

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

  1. (intransitive) To consume a snack before going to bed.
  2. (intransitive) To eat dinner.
    Synonyms:
    dine, dinner
  3. (transitive) To provide (a person or animal) with supper.
    • Horns in the night-season are heard a great way off, and in the winter-season were blown at every farmer’s house about eight at night when they suppered the horses and cows; […]1815, “Supplement to Volume LXXXV. Part I. […]”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. […], London: […] [John] Nichols, Son, and [Samuel] Bentley, […], page 581, column 1

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Questions about suppering

What is suppering the present participle and gerund of?
Suppering is the present participle and gerund of supper.

Words near suppering in the dictionary

  1. supper-time
  2. supper-times
  3. supperclub
  4. supperclubs
  5. suppered
  6. suppering
  7. supperless
  8. supperlessness
  9. suppermate
  10. suppermates
  11. suppers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suppering (page history and authors); supper (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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