Diner

Quick meaning: Diner is a noun meaning Someone who dines.

Meaning

Someone who dines.

More Meanings

1. A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
2. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
3. (US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.
4. (rare) Someone who gives a dinner.

Example Sentences

The diner is everybody's kitchen.

Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Word Forms

• diners

Synonyms for diner

Depending on context, synonyms include pub, automat, beanery, buffet, cafeteria, caff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dine, supper, dinnertime, dining, dinner, meal.

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