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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

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We have dinner at six.What are you making for dinner tonight?

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This word has no antonyms

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.

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