dinner Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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. noun a party of people assembled to have dinner together
    dinner party.
    • guests should never be late to a dinner party

WordNet

Din"ner noun
Etymology
F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.
Definitions
  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.
    ✍ 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 1913