diner

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See also: Diner, dîner, dīner, and dinêṟ

English

A diner from the outside
Inside a diner in the USA

Etymology 1

dine +‎ -er. Doublet of dinner.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dī'nər IPA(key): /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

diner (plural diners)

  1. One who dines.
    • 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?
    • 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, 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: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant
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Translations
dining car — see dining car

Further reading

Etymology 2

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Wikipedia

Noun

diner (plural diners)

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

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

From Latin denarius.

Noun

diner ?

  1. denary

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

diner m (plural diners)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French , from Old French disner.

Pronunciation

Noun

diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)

  1. dinner, supper

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

diner

  1. post-1990 spelling of dîner

Conjugation

Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple diner
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple dinant
/di.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle diné
/di.ne/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(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/
past historic2 dinai
/di.ne/ 		dinas
/di.na/ 		dina
/di.na/ 		dinâmes
/di.nam/ 		dinâtes
/di.nat/ 		dinèrent
/di.nɛʁ/
future dinerai
/din.ʁe/ 		dineras
/din.ʁa/ 		dinera
/din.ʁa/ 		dinerons
/din.ʁɔ̃/ 		dinerez
/din.ʁe/ 		dineront
/din.ʁɔ̃/
conditional dinerais
/din.ʁɛ/ 		dinerais
/din.ʁɛ/ 		dinerait
/din.ʁɛ/ 		dinerions
/di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		dineriez
/di.nə.ʁje/ 		dineraient
/din.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present dine
/din/ 		dines
/din/ 		dine
/din/ 		dinions
/di.njɔ̃/ 		diniez
/di.nje/ 		dinent
/din/
imperfect2 dinasse
/di.nas/ 		dinasses
/di.nas/ 		dinât
/di.na/ 		dinassions
/di.na.sjɔ̃/ 		dinassiez
/di.na.sje/ 		dinassent
/di.nas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — dine
/din/ 		— dinons
/di.nɔ̃/ 		dinez
/di.ne/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

diner

  1. Alternative form of dyner

Portuguese

Noun

diner m (plural diners)

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

Walloon

Pronunciation

Verb

diner

  1. Alternative form of dner
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