diner en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈdaɪ̯nɚ/ (General-American)
- /ˈdaɪ̯nə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- [ˈdaɪ̯nɚ] ~ [ˈdaɪ̯nɹ̩] (General-American)
- [ˈdaɪ̯nə] (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree English dine Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English diner From dine + -er.
Meanings
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Someone who dines.
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.
1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings: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?
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
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(rare) Someone who gives a dinner.
The street outside was nearly empty, though it wouldn’t stay that way for long. The dinner crowds would be out soon, hawking their blood and other valuable living assets to the vitally challenged for tokens and textbooks and practical tips on how to pass Professor Boynya’s first alchemy exam. Both diners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.
2020, Elle Katharine White, “Matriculation”, in Jonathan Strahan, editor, The Book of Dragons: An Anthology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Voyager, →ISBN:f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?
2004, Will Jones, “Tina from New Mexico: Let Me Tell You ’bout This A**hole…”, in Let Me Tell You ’bout This…, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 145: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.
1821, “On Collecting”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume I, Original Papers, number III, London: Henry Colburn and Co. […], →OCLC, page 361:
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A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
The diner is everybody's kitchen.
1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner:Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.
1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
- (US) 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| diners | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
dining room · refreshment car · club car · guest · dinee · dining hall · dining facility · private car · pie car · buffet car
Deriveds
lounge diner · diner-out · Joe's Diner · diner lingo · dinerlike
Hypernyms
rolling stock · car · rail car · railroad car · carriage · vehicle · host
Relateds
Synonyms
dining car · buffet · cookshack · lunchroom · dining hall · caff · diner · restaurant car · eatery · hotel · beanery · cafeteria · luncheonette · pub · restaurant · cookhouse · hashery · choke and puke · canteen · automat · noshery
Translations (41)
ga bialann (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ja 食堂車 (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ca cafeteria (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · la popīna (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · fi ruokala (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ky даамкана (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · el μικροεστιατόριο (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ko 식당차 (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · cmn 餐車 /餐车 (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · it vagone ristorante (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · tr lokanta (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · pl wagon restauracyjny (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · he מִזְלָלָה (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · eo manĝanto (one who dines) · ru заку́сочная (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · pt vagão-restaurante (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · gl vagón restaurante (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · de Speisewagen (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · sv matbespisning (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · lv restorānvagons (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · kk дәмхана (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · pl gość (one who dines) · it ristoro (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · hu étkezde (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · pt diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · fr café-restaurant (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · es cafetería (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · id warung makan (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · sv servering (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ca vagó-restaurant (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · hu kifőzde (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · sv kafeteria (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · fr wagon-restaurant (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · sv matställe (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · id kedai makan (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ru ваго́н-рестора́н (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · tr vagon restoran (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · fi ravintola (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · bg ваго́н-рестора́нт (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · ja ダイナー (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car) · es coche restaurante (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car)