Dinner | Mean of dinner in English Dictionary

/ˈdɪnɚ/

• Noun
• the main meal of the day
1. We had many pleasant dinners together.
2. a steak/lobster dinner
3. What's for dinner?
4. They had dinner early.
5. We're planning to ask them to dinner soon.
6. Dinner is served. [=dinner is ready; it's time to come to the table for dinner]
7. dinner guests
8. dinner rolls
9. an enjoyable dinner companion
10. My new boyfriend and I had a dinner date [=a date to eat dinner together] last night.
11. She hosted a dinner party [=a party at which dinner is served] at her apartment.
12. the dinner table [=the table where people eat dinner]
13. We haven't gone out to dinner in weeks.
14. He took her out to dinner several times.
• a usually large formal event at which dinner is eaten
1. Two hundred people attended his retirement dinner.
2. the club's annual dinner [=banquet]
3. an awards dinner [=a dinner at which awards are given]
• a cooked and packaged meal that usually only needs to be heated before it is eaten
1. a frozen dinner