dinner party en · NOUN
Meanings
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A relatively formal meal at which invited guests eat in the home of the host.
If the dinner party does become extinct, I will mourn its passing. I like having them, and I love being invited to them.
2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN:She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dinner-party | alternative | lexicographic | |
| dinner parties | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
virtual dinner party · a revolution is not a dinner party
Synonyms
Translations (8)
ha dinā̀ (A relatively formal guestmeal) · ota ضیافت (A relatively formal guestmeal) · la concēnātiō (A relatively formal guestmeal) · ja 晩餐会 (A relatively formal guestmeal) · pl uroczysty obiad (A relatively formal guestmeal) · mn оройн зоог (A relatively formal guestmeal) · la polluctūra (A relatively formal guestmeal) · hy ճաշկերույթ (A relatively formal guestmeal)