diner
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom dine + -er. Doublet of dinner.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdiner (plural diners)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editdining car — see dining car
a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
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Further reading
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editdiner (plural diners)
- A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
Anagrams
editBreton
editEtymology
editNoun
editdiner ?
Catalan
editEtymology
editInherited from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar and denari.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdiner m (plural diners)
- (usually in the plural) money
- (historical) denier
- (historical) denarius
- Synonym: denari
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “diner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdiner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)
Synonyms
edit- avondeten (neutral register)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFrench
editPronunciation
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Verb
editdiner
Conjugation
editConjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | diner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | dinant /di.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
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 tenses) |
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 historic2 | 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 tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | dine /din/ |
dines /din/ |
dine /din/ |
dinions /di.njɔ̃/ |
diniez /di.nje/ |
dinent /din/ |
imperfect2 | dinasse /di.nas/ |
dinasses /di.nas/ |
dinât /di.na/ |
dinassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/ |
dinassiez /di.na.sje/ |
dinassent /di.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | dine /din/ |
— | dinons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dinez /di.ne/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
edit- “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
editNoun
editdiner
- Alternative form of dyner
Portuguese
editNoun
editdiner m (plural diners)
- diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)
Walloon
editPronunciation
editVerb
editdiner
- Alternative form of dner
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