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Diner vs. Dinner

Diner

/ˈdaɪnə/
A type of restaurant where you can get simple, inexpensive meals, often resembling an old-fashioned railroad dining car.

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Dinner

/ˈdɪnə/
A meal eaten in the evening or at midday

Examples:

Naomi cooked a special dinner for her son.He pays for their dinners, and they invite the guests.'He even invited the Bareacres to a grand dinner.

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Ways to tell them apart:

etymology
  • A diner often refers to a type of restaurant or a person who is eating out.
  • Dinner is a meal, while diner can refer to either a person or a place.
  • Diners are locations where you have meals, whereas dinner is the meal itself.
  • Remember that diner has one n, just like the word eat, a place where you eat.
  • Dinner usually happens in the evening, think of it as D is for dark, the time when you have dinner.
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