Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dinner"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dinner
n 1: the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday:
"dinner will be at 8"; "on Sundays they had a large
dinner when they returned from church"
2: a party of people assembled to have dinner together; "guests
should never be late to a dinner party" [syn: {dinner
party}]
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