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Webster 1913 Edition

Supper

Sup′per

,
Noun.
[OE.
soper
,
super
, OF.
super
,
soper
, F.
souper
; originally an infinitive, to sup, take a meal. See
Soup
, and cf.
Sup
to take supper.]
A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
☞ Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc.

Sup′per

,
Verb.
I.
To take supper; to sup.
[R.]

Sup′per

,
Verb.
T.
To supply with supper.
[R.]
“Kester was suppering the horses.”
Mrs. Gaskell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Supper

SUP'PER

,
Noun.
The evening meal. People who dine late, eat no supper. The dinner of fashionable people would be the supper of rustics.

Definition 2024

supper

supper

English

Noun

supper ‎(plural suppers)

  1. Food consumed before going to bed.
  2. Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
  3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
    a fish supper; a pizza supper
  4. A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

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Verb

supper ‎(third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

  1. To consume a snack before retiring.
  2. To eat dinner (see above).

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Danish

Noun

supper c

  1. plural indefinite of suppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

supper m, f

  1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

supper f

  1. indefinite plural of suppe

Etymology

From Old French soper, from sope ‎(“soup”). Compare French souper.

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