See also: Diner, dîner, dīner, and dinêṟ

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A diner from the outside
 
Inside a diner in the USA

Etymology 1

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From dine +‎ -er. Doublet of dinner.

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diner (plural diners)

  1. One who dines.
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. [] Can those harmless but refined fellow-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 wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
  2. A dining car in a railroad train.
    Synonym: dining car
    • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
      Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.
    • 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner:
      The diner is everybody's kitchen.
  3. (US) A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
    Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant
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Etymology 2

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diner (plural diners)

  1. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

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Breton

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From Latin denarius.

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diner ?

  1. denary

Catalan

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar and denari.

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diner m (plural diners)

  1. (usually in the plural) money
  2. (historical) denier
  3. (historical) denarius
    Synonym: denari

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Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.

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diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)

  1. dinner, supper

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French

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diner

  1. post-1990 spelling of dîner

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diner

  1. Alternative form of dyner

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diner m (plural diners)

  1. diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)

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diner

  1. Alternative form of dner