Dinner

Dinner is usually the name of the main meal of the day. Depending upon culture, dinner may be the second, third or fourth meal of the day. Originally, though, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten around noon, and is still occasionally used for a noontime meal, if it is a large or main meal.

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Famous quotes containing the word dinner:

    “This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “At the dinner table, if you can’t think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don’t throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.”
    —J.M. (James Matthew)