See Also: dinner(dictionary)
dinner pad(medicine)
dinner(1)(dictionary)
dinner(2)(dictionary)
TV dinner(dictionary)
dinner theater(dictionary)
dinner table(dictionary)
Dinner Rolls(recipes)
dinner party(dictionary)
dinner lady(dictionary)

ap- (iou) and dinner(1) (iou)


ap- (iou)



ap- prefix1. (not productive).
Assim. form of Latin AD- before p. In Old French, Latin app- was reduced to ap-, which appears in Middle English adoptions, but in later French, and hence in English, app- was restored by Latinization, as apparel, appear.

dinner(1) (iou)



dinner noun. ME.

The main meal of the day, eaten either about midday or in the evening; a formal meal of several courses, spec. one held publicly to honour a person, mark an occasion, etc.
done like a dinner Austral. slang utterly defeated. eat dinners: see EAT verb. have had more than a person has had hot dinners colloq.: used hyperbol. to indicate a person's wide experience of a given activity or phenomenon. like a dog's dinner: see DOG noun. WORKING dinner.
Day Lewis Sunday dinner was a joint, two veg. and pudding affair, far superior to our weekday lunches or evening meals. G. B. Shaw Speeches made by my uncle at charitable dinners.
Comb.: dinner-bell: rung to announce dinner; dinner-Dance a dinner followed by dancing; dinner-horn US a horn blown to call workers on a farm etc. to dinner; dinner jacket a man's short usu. black dress-coat without tails, worn with a black tie for evening functions; dinner lady a woman employed to serve midday meals in a school; dinner-pail US a pail in which a labourer's or schoolchild's dinner is carried and kept warm (hand in one's dinner-pail, pass in one's dinner-pail, turn in one's dinner-pail (slang), die); dinner service a set of matching plates, dishes, etc., for serving dinner; dinner-table a dining-table; dinner theatre N. Amer. a theatre in which a meal is included in the price of a ticket; dinner-time: when dinner is customarily eaten; dinner wagon a trolley with tiers for holding dishes etc., for service in a dining-room.
dinnerless adjective not provided with a dinner M17.
dinnery adjective characterized by or suggestive of dinners M19.