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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.
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dinner
c.1300, 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.
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