Din"ner (?), n. [F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.]
1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
2. An entertainment; a feast.
A grand political dinner.
Tennyson. &fist; Dinner is much used, in
an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first
part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.
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