Diner

//ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who dines.

    "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?"

  2. 2
    A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
  3. 3
    a restaurant that resembles a dining car wordnet
  4. 4
    Someone who gives a dinner. rare

    "In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire."

  5. 5
    a passenger car where food is served in transit wordnet
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  1. 6
    A car in a railroad train that serves meals.

    "Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however."

  2. 7
    a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) wordnet
  3. 8
    A typically small restaurant, historically 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. US

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dine + -er.

Etymology 2

From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.

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