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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.
Examples:
Synonyms:
restaurant
eatery
cafeteria
Antonyms:
home
Dinner
/ˈdɪnə/
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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
.
Synonyms:
supper
Antonyms:
This word has no antonyms
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Ways to tell them apart:
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.
When to use diner:
When to use dinner:
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