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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dinner/ˈdɪnə(r)/

▶noun the main meal of the day, taken either around midday or in the evening.

■ a formal evening meal, typically one in honour of a person or event.

– origin ME: from OFr. disner (see dine).

'dinner' also found in these Oxford entries:

absolute - beanfeast - cenacle - croupier - dine - dinner dance - dinner jacket - dinner lady - dinner party - dinner suit - DJ - dog - dress shirt - entrée - gaudy - midinette - preposition - preprandial - Seder - smoking jacket - soup and fish - tuxedo - TV dinner - wayzgoose

Forum discussions with the word(s) "dinner" in the title:

- We gather up with my family to have dinner and then we give presents to each other.
... go out <for, to> dinner.
... pop his todger between two floury baps, and shout ' Dinner time Fido'
... so clean you could eat your dinner off it
'Dinner is on me!'
(I didn't pay for) "the dinner" or "dinner"
[land] where it always seems to be after dinner
"Are you done your dinner?"
"dinner & lunch" - a difference
"dinner buffet"
a chichen bone that was left over from dinner
a dinner
a dinner date with friends
Accommodating a dinner with 50 people
after dinner at a restaurant [ did you like the food? ]
after having dinner, i watched tv for a few minutes then my friend called me out for coffee
After our guests arrived, we sat down to dinner.
and sometimes 'swap' children at dinner
Ask her out for dinner
At what time is dinner?
bachelor dinner
BE: 'tea' to mean 'dinner'
bread to dinner, bread for dinner?
breakfast for dinner
Can I ask you out <for, to> dinner?
candlelit/candlelight dinner?
chemical equivalent of a dinner bell
Conditional (2): If you arrived at 8, they would be having dinner".
Conditional, future: If you help me move tomorrow, I will buy you dinner.
cook / make dinner
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