Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The time during which dinner is normally eaten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The usual time of dining; the dinner-hour. See
dinner .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the time when people eat dinner, usually the time for the evening meal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
time whendinner takes place. - noun The
time whendinner is ready. - noun UK The mid-day break in English schools (some areas),
lunchtime . - noun
dinner hour , the hour between 18h00 and 19h00
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal
Etymologies
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Examples
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( "dinnertime" --- from 6: 30 to 8: 30) the public could dip in and out of the Painted Bride (a well-known Philly performance venue) and watch slow-moving, clay-slip covered women occasionally break off small pieces of clay from a sumptuous banquet table of slip-cast, but unglazed and unfired, clay fruits and vegetables.
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( "dinnertime" --- from 6: 30 to 8: 30) the public could dip in and out of the Painted Bride (a well-known Philly performance venue) and watch slow-moving, clay-slip covered women occasionally break off small pieces of clay from a sumptuous banquet table of slip-cast, but unglazed and unfired, clay fruits and vegetables.
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Mr. Coulter's older brother, John Coulter, recalled a dinnertime debate when Ms. Coulter was 8 and the family argued over whether states should help pay for private education.
NYT > Home Page By LAURA M. HOLSON 2010
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Everything (but the bread, which had to toast a la minute) was prepped and ready to go come dinnertime, meaning that all I had to do was boil water, chop some veggies and throw together a basic saute - 20 minutes.
Mommy's Meal Sarah 2009
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Everything (but the bread, which had to toast a la minute) was prepped and ready to go come dinnertime, meaning that all I had to do was boil water, chop some veggies and throw together a basic saute - 20 minutes.
Archive 2009-05-01 Sarah 2009
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You could, in theory, come home from work, slice off a hunk of dough, and have fresh-baked bread by dinnertime.
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There are endless careful details — a 45-foot zinc bar, a Parisian metro clock — a lovely rooftop garden designed by Seattle Urban Farm, and a menu from chef Shannon Galusha that fits a big niche of dinnertime cravings, from a French rotisserie (with chickens specially raised for Bastille by an Eastside farm) to a takeout window for felafel.
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Step by step, they destroyed respect (which lasts to this very day) for things like Victorian architecture, clothing, the rituals of dinnertime at the table, and the way business was conducted.
Modest Active Wear 2009
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And the dynamite planted outside the church that took the lives of the four girls, whose names she was instructed to remember in prayer at dinnertime.
All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story David Montgomery 2010
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There are endless careful details — a 45-foot zinc bar, a Parisian metro clock — a lovely rooftop garden designed by Seattle Urban Farm, and a menu from chef Shannon Galusha that fits a big niche of dinnertime cravings, from a French rotisserie (with chickens specially raised for Bastille by an Eastside farm) to a takeout window for felafel.
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