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din⋅er

  [dahy-ner]
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–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.
Origin:
1800–10; dine + -er 1
New York Diner
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www.NYCgo.com
Moonrock Diner Cafe
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Newyork.Citysearch.com

dining car

 
–noun
a railroad car equipped with tables and chairs, in which meals are served.
Also, especially British, restaurant car.
Also called diner.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism
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din·er   (dī'nər)   
n.  

  1. One that dines: midnight diners enjoying the meal after the theater.

  2. See dining car.

  3. A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.

din·ing car   (dī'nĭng)
n.  A railroad car in which meals are served. Also called diner.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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