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Webster 1913 Edition
Diner
Din′er
,Noun.
One who dines.
Definition 2024
Diner
diner
diner
English
Noun
diner (plural diners)
- One who dines, an eater.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- 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?
- Calvin Trillin (1935-)
- 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.
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- A dining car in a railroad train.
- Richard Gutman
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.
- Richard Gutman
- A typically small restaurant, usually 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, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
Synonyms
- (rail car): dining car
- (British, lower-class restaurant): pub
Hyponyms
- (expert): deipnosophist
Related terms
- (act): See eating & dinner
- (verb): See eat
- Joe’s Diner
Translations
a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a dining car
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: di‧ner
Etymology
Noun
diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)
Synonyms
- avondeten (less formal)
French
Verb
diner
- Alternative spelling of dîner
Conjugation
Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | diner | avoir diné | |||||
| gerund | en dinant | en ayant diné | |||||
| present participle | dinant /di.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | diné /di.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dine /din/ |
dines /din/ |
dine /din/ |
dinons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dinez /di.ne/ |
dinent /din/ |
| imperfect | dinais /di.nɛ/ |
dinais /di.nɛ/ |
dinait /di.nɛ/ |
dinions /di.njɔ̃/ |
diniez /di.nje/ |
dinaient /di.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | dinai /di.ne/ |
dinas /di.na/ |
dina /di.na/ |
dinâmes /di.nam/ |
dinâtes /di.nat/ |
dinèrent /di.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | dinerai /din.ʁe/ |
dineras /din.ʁa/ |
dinera /din.ʁa/ |
dinerons /din.ʁɔ̃/ |
dinerez /din.ʁe/ |
dineront /din.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | dinerais /din.ʁɛ/ |
dinerais /din.ʁɛ/ |
dinerait /din.ʁɛ/ |
dinerions /di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dineriez /di.nə.ʁje/ |
dineraient /din.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dine /din/ |
dines /din/ |
dine /din/ |
dinions /di.njɔ̃/ |
diniez /di.nje/ |
dinent /din/ |
| imperfect1 |
dinasse /di.nas/ |
dinasses /di.nas/ |
dinât /di.na/ |
dinassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/ |
dinassiez /di.na.sje/ |
dinassent /di.nas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | dine /din/ |
— | dinons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dinez /di.ne/ |
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