diner

From dine +‎ -er. Doublet of dinner.

• enPR: dī'nər IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

diner (plural diners)

1. One who dines.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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?

   • 1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings:

     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.

2. A dining car in a railroad train.

   Synonym: dining car

   • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:

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

   • 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner:

     The diner is everybody's kitchen.

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.

   Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant

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From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.

diner (plural diners)

2. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

• -drine, Idren, Indre, Riden, drein, rined

From Latin denarius.

diner ?

1. denary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar and denari.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈneɾ]

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diner m (plural diners)

1. (usually in the plural) money
2. (historical) denier
3. (historical) denarius

   Synonym: denari

• “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “diner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.

• IPA^(key): /diˈneː/

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• Hyphenation: di‧ner
• Rhymes: -eː

diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)

1. dinner, supper

• avondeten (neutral register)

• kerstdiner

• dineren

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diner

1. post-1990 spelling of dîner

• “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

diner

1. Alternative form of dyner

diner m (plural diners)

1. diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)

• IPA^(key): /di.ne/

diner

1. Alternative form of dner