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diner

[ dahy-ner ]

noun

  1. a person who dines.
  2. a railroad dining car.
  3. a restaurant built like such a car.
  4. a small, informal, and usually inexpensive restaurant.


diner

/ ˈdaɪnə /

noun

  1. a person eating a meal, esp in a restaurant
  2. a small restaurant, often at the roadside
  3. a fashionable bar, or a section of one, where food is served


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Word History and Origins

Origin of diner1

First recorded in 1800–10; dine + -er 1

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Example Sentences

During that weekend, he writes, he met a two girls in a diner.

“There are various iterations of my life out there,” says Billy Hayes, digging into his Eggs Benedict at a Manhattan diner.

Eventually, even the most enthusiastic diner will tire of going to his restaurant.

“You can host a sit-down diner for 140, and the house can accommodate 700 people at a party,” Davenport says proudly.

In the new world order where every diner is a critic, there is a lot of feigned expertise.

Then said he in himself, "Most like he knoweth not its value;" so he brought out of his pocket a gold diner and gave it to him.

Mrime gives the following note: C'est l'usage en Russie de prendre de l'eau-de-vie un peu avant le diner.

Hillhouse was not a regular diner with Cooper, but he introduced there a friend who became much more regular in his attendance.

This little girl's mother is to-day a celebrated beauty—and her next-door diner was farmed out and insured.

"Yes, there is one diner who has ordered a singular meal," replied a garon, in reply to a question.

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