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din·er
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nər
/
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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.
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Origin:
1800–10;
dine
+
-er
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Can be confused:
diner,
dinner
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diner
(ˈdaɪnə)
—
n
1.
a person eating a meal, esp in a restaurant
2.
chiefly
(
US
), (
Canadian
) 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 Origin & History
diner
"one who dines, 1815," from
dine
. Meaning "railway car for eating" is 1890, Amer.Eng.; of restaurants built to resemble dining cars (or in some cases actual converted dining cars) from 1935.
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