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dinnertime
[ din-er-tahym ]
noun
- the period set aside for eating dinner.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dinnertime1
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Example Sentences
As dinnertime came and went, he and his wife and two young children, who had traveled to Beijing, had nothing to eat.
For most of her childhood, Jenna (not her real name) spent dinnertime staring at a plate of food that she refused to touch.
They go home and sleep until nine; then they reel, sleepy, to counting-houses and offices, and doze on desks until dinnertime.
There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime.
At one o'clock the men, guessing it to be dinnertime, stopped pretending to work and went away.
By dinnertime there were twenty-five holes in the cardboard strip; by tea-time there were forty!
There he would labour till two or three o'clock, his usual dinnertime.
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