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dinner

Dinner is the largest meal of the day, usually eaten in the evening. I'm sorry, I'll be late tonight, so I won't be home for dinner. We had fish with rice and fried vegetables for dinner last night.

dinner

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 (= dinner party) a party of people assembled to have dinner together guests should never be late to a dinner party

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Topics dinner topics

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  • What words refer to the main meal of the day?

Examples dinner examples

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Simple sentences

Tom didn't have dinner last night.
What about having fish for dinner?
His wife being out, he cooked dinner for himself.
I play the guitar before dinner.
Thank you for inviting me to dinner.
What time will dinner be served?
Tom came just before dinner.
I ate dinner last night, but I don't think Tom did.
Dinner is almost ready.
We can't stay for dinner.
I had pizza for lunch, so I don't want pizza for dinner.
I won't have to make dinner tonight.
Go wash up before dinner.
Tom invited you to dinner.
During summer breaks, I ate dinner at midnight.
You can't be hungry. You've just had dinner.
Hurry up and set the table for dinner.
We saw the film and had dinner together.
My wife is preparing dinner right now.
What time is dinner?
I must finish my homework before dinner.
Lucy would often play the piano after dinner.
Have you eaten your dinner already?
Have you eaten dinner yet?
Dinner will be ready soon.
What a splendid dinner!
How delicious your dinner was!
Tom was late for dinner.
Tom, what would you like to have for dinner?
Does Tony study after dinner?
What time is dinner served?
Dinner is ready.

Movie subtitles

From the looks of it, you've already ate dinner.
Hey, are you sure you're cool to do the Calvin dinner without me?
Oh, and you all should come over for dinner when we have the right table.
I'm getting you out of that dinner.
I am not interested. I'm having a lovely dinner with my family.
You know, if something was gonna pull me away from this dinner, it would have to be really important, like the McKinley project.
Well, you definitely had it last night at dinner, and then. at the observatory.
Christopher and I are going out for dinner tomorrow, and as I've had the day off beforehand I thought I'd get ahead.
Her dinner's going cold, Mum.
I thought a stroll in the fresh air might perk up our appetites before dinner.
You want to have dinner with me?
I'm sorry I'm not a better dinner companion.
You are a smart and charming dinner companion.
And I just wanted to say I'm very much looking forward to our dinner on Sunday.
Enjoy your dinner, last night?
She invited us to dinner tomorrow night.
Dinner is ready. - Let's go.
Uh, tonight for dinner, let's check out that new thai place.
Mr Krafft left the hotel about an hour ago, but he has ordered dinner for two at 10pm.
Let's talk about it over dinner tonight.
A friendly dinner.
Without dinner? Not tonight.
Probably just a few cuts. I'm having dinner with him.
You mean dinner?
This is either a left-handed painting or a vegetable dinner.
Send up his dinner, too.
What about that turkey dinner?
It's dinner-time, Sylvia!
Starting on Wednesday, the forum in Jeju for peace on the Peninsula will begin. Although it is not necessary for you to go to Jeju personally, but there's a Royal Family dinner.
The whole world's political and business VIPs will be present. It's a dinner organized by the Royal Family, how can the host not go after inviting guests over?
This is the list of those participating in the Royal Family dinner.
He will also come for the Royal Family dinner.
Dinner will begin in 30 minutes.
Then how about spending the time in-between somewhere and do it over dinner?
I have a dinner appointment with my sis tonight.

News and current affairs

This summer, friends who live a few kilometers from us in rural Montana in the western US had to interrupt their dinner when a black bear suddenly came out of the trees.
BRISBANE - At an official dinner in Washington, DC, ahead of November's G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch lectured ministers on the dangers of socialism and big government.
After all, most temporary taxes come for lunch and stay for dinner.
Ashdown also revealed how Croatian president Franjo Tudjman said at a dinner party in 1995 that Milosevic and he had agreed to carve up Bosnia.
We do these things over dinner.
After my return to Washington, I had a dinner with an American politician who had just visited Saint Petersburg.
Some restaurants greet their customers with a guard who brusquely asks what they want, as if they came to buy stamps, not to have dinner.
I was asked to comment on United States-Russian relations at a dinner with top officials from the government and Gazprom, the giant energy company.
Before arriving at dinner, the Secretary of the Chancellery, Rudolf Seiters, called from Bonn.
I was at a dinner the other night with Yale World Fellows, a carefully selected group of professionals, representing every major country of the world, who spend a semester here.
After the World Fellows Dinner, the Fellow from Namibia was extolling to me, in impeccable and relaxed English, the beautiful vacation homes I might find (and even buy) there.
At a dinner in a London restaurant named Granita, in what has since become the best-known coffee-stage chat in British history, Blair made a proposal to Gordon Brown, his rival for the leadership.
Any dinner party in media circles in New York or Washington features journalists jauntily showing prospective employers their goods, or trading favors with each other, by disclosing classified information.
One very senior government official of a northern European country did not even put down his fork when interrupted by an earnest dinner companion who pointed out that many Spaniards now eat out of garbage cans.
In mid-December Putin held his annual dinner with the oligarchs - a feast in a time of plague, so to speak.
At the dinner, Putin reiterated his promise to protect the oligarchs' fortunes from American and European sanctions.
The first was on a boat and ended with dinner with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at Sochi on the Black Sea.
The annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, where the president is lampooned by the press, is a relic of this custom.
The diplomatic negotiation that preceded the meeting was exquisitely complex, even covering who should pay for dinner (they split the bill).
Having unsettled many of his neighbors, not just the Americans, his upcoming visit to Vietnam, and his prime minister Li Keqiang's visit to South Korea, are of a piece with his dinner-hour diplomacy with Ma.
Every day at dinner, mothers are left alone to answer when children ask if daddy still lives in the house.
A hotel room or dinner in New York seems a bargain when compared to prices in London, Paris, or Tokyo.

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