diner
English
A diner from the outside
Inside a diner in the USA
Pronunciation
- enPR: dī'nər IPA(key): /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Noun
diner (plural diners)
- One who dines.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- 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.
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- A dining car in a railroad train.
- Synonym: dining car
- 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.
- 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
Translations
dining car — see dining car
a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
diner m (plural diners)
Derived terms
- adinerar
- diner de Sant Pere
- diners comptants
- diner viu
Further reading
- “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “diner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “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
Etymology
Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈneː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: di‧ner
- Rhymes: -eː
Synonyms
- avondeten (neutral register)
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Conjugation
Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | diner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
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