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One whodines .1921 Ben Travers , chapter 5, inA Cuckoo in the Nest Doubleday, Page & Company , published1925 ,→OCLC The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[ …] 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 wisediner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
( rare ) gives adinner .Coordinate term: dinee 1821 The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal Henry Colburn and Co. [ … ] →OCLC page361 :In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though thediner dinee , the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the sameregular course of study , as theAmphitryon Millionaire .
2004 Let Me Tell You ’bout This… , Victoria, B.C.:Trafford Publishing ,→ISBN page145 :f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner ”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?
2020 Matriculation ”, inJonathan Strahan , editor,The Book of Dragons: An Anthology , New York, N.Y.:Harper Voyager ,→ISBN The street outside was nearly empty, though it wouldn’t stay that way for long. The dinner crowds would be out soon, hawking their blood and other valuable living assets to the vitally challenged for tokens and textbooks and practical tips on how to pass Professor Boynya’s first alchemy exam. Bothdiners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.
Adining car in arailroad train .Synonym: dining car 1951 Railway Magazine , page46 :Pacific No. 60123,H. A. Ivatt , a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but nodiners , went by, however.
1979 American Diner :Thediner is everybody's kitchen.
( US ) restaurant , historicallymodeled after arailroad dining car , that serveslower-class fare , normally having acounter withstools along one side andbooths on the other.Synonyms: ( British ) pub see also Thesaurus:restaurant a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
Bulgarian:ваго́н-рестора́нт m ( vagón-restoránt ) Catalan:vagó-restaurant m cafeteria f Chinese:Mandarin:餐車 / 餐车 (zh) ( cānchē ) Finnish:ravintola (fi) ,ruokala (fi) French:café-restaurant (fr) m wagon-restaurant (fr) m Galician:vagón restaurante m German:Speisewagen (de) m Greek:μικροεστιατόριο n ( mikroestiatório ) Hebrew:מִזְלָלָה (he) f ( mizlalá ) Hungarian:étkezde (hu) ,kifőzde (hu) Indonesian:kedai makan warung makan Irish:bialann f Italian:vagone ristorante m ristoro (it) m Japanese:ダイナー ( dainā ) ,食堂車 (ja) ( しょくどうしゃ, shokudōsha ) Kazakh:дәмхана ( dämxana ) Korean:식당차(食堂車) (ko) ( sikdangcha ) Kyrgyz:даамкана ( daamkana ) Latin:popīna (la) f Latvian:restorānvagons m Polish:wagon restauracyjny (pl) m Portuguese:diner (pt) m vagão-restaurante m Russian:ваго́н-рестора́н (ru) m ( vagón-restorán ) ( dining car ) ,закусочная (ru) f ( zakusočnaja ) Spanish:coche restaurante m cafetería (es) f Swedish:matbespisning kafeteria (sv) c matställe (sv) ,servering (sv) Turkish:lokanta (tr) ,vagon restoran (tr)
FromCatalan diner Doublet ofdenar denarius denier dinar dinero , and dinheiro
diner (plural diners
Acommemorative currency ofAndorra , notlegal tender , divided into 100centims . FromLatin denarius
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denary Inherited fromVulgar Latin *dīnārius , an alteration ofLatin dēnārius Doublet ofdinar denari
diner m plural diners
( usually in theplural ) money ( historical ) denier ( historical ) denarius Synonym: denari “diner ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana Dictionary of the Catalan Language Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “diner ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “diner” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“diner” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.FromOld Cornish dinair Proto-Brythonic *dinėr Latin dēnārius
diner m plural dinerow
penny peuns ( “ pound (currency) ” ) Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
Borrowed fromFrench dîner Middle French [Term?] , fromOld French disner
IPA (key ) : /diˈneː/ Hyphenation:di‧ner Rhymes:-eː diner n plural diners diminutive dinertje n
dinner ,supper diner
post-1990 spelling ofdîner infinitive simple diner compound avoir present participle orgerund 1 simple dinant /di.nɑ̃/ compound ayant 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 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 historic 2 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 present perfect present indicative ofavoir pluperfect imperfect indicative ofavoir past anterior 2 past historic ofavoir future perfect future ofavoir conditional perfect conditional ofavoir subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles (simple present dine /din/ dines /din/ dine /din/ dinions /di.njɔ̃/ diniez /di.nje/ dinent /din/ imperfect 2 dinasse /di.nas/ dinasses /di.nas/ dinât /di.na/ dinassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/ dinassiez /di.na.sje/ dinassent /di.nas/ (compound past present subjunctive ofavoir pluperfect 2 imperfect subjunctive ofavoir imperative – tu – nous vous – simple — dine /din/ — dinons /di.nɔ̃/ dinez /di.ne/ — compound — simple imperative ofavoir — simple imperative ofavoir simple imperative ofavoir — 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen 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 [1995],Master the Basics: French , pp.77 ,78 ,79 ,81 ).
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diner ( a small and inexpensive type of restaurant ) diner
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