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din⋅ner

  [din-er]
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–noun
1. the main meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
2. a formal meal in honor of some person or occasion.
3. table d'hôte.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME diner < OF disner (n. use of v.); see dine

Related forms:
din⋅ner⋅less, adjective
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din·ner   (dĭn'ər)   
n.  
    1. The chief meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
    2. A banquet or formal meal in honor of a person or event.
    3. The food prepared for either of these meals.
  2. A full-course meal served at a fixed price; table d'hôte.

[Middle English diner, morning meal, from Old French disner, diner, to dine, morning meal; see dine.]
Word History: Eating foods such as pizza and ice cream for breakfast may be justified etymologically. In Middle English dinner meant "breakfast," as did the Old French word disner, or diner, which was the source of our word. The Old French word came from the Vulgar Latin word *disiūnāre, meaning "to break one's fast; that is, to eat one's first meal," a notion also contained in our word breakfast. The Vulgar Latin word was derived from an earlier word, *disiēiūnāre, the Latin elements of which are dis-, denoting reversal, and iēiūnium, "fast." Middle English diner not only meant "breakfast" but, echoing usage of the Old French word diner, more commonly meant "the first big meal of the day, usually eaten between 9 A.M. and noon." Customs change, however, and over the years we have let the chief meal become the last meal of the day, by which time we have broken our fast more than once.
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Dinner

Din"ner\, n. [F. d[^i]ner, fr. d[^i]ner to dine. See Dine.]

1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

2. An entertainment; a feast.

A grand political dinner. --Tennyson.

Note: Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : dinner
Spanish: comida, cena,
German: die Hauptmahlzeit,
Japanese: 一日の中の主な食事
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dinner 
1297, from O.Fr. disner, originally "breakfast," later "lunch," noun use of infinitive disner (see dine). Always used in Eng. for the main meal of the day; shift from midday to evening began with the fashionable classes. Childish reduplication din-din is attested from 1905.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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