Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that dines.
- noun A dining car.
- noun A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and often housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofdine ; one who dines; one who eats a meal, especiallydinner . - noun A small and inexpensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a
dining car . - noun A railroad dining car.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
- noun a restaurant that resembles a dining car
- noun a passenger car where food is served in transit
Etymologies
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Examples
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And my husband and I, who follow all the conventional coffee ideas, have a secret love at least it was secret until now for what we call diner coffee, which you get from diners and cheap restaurants.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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And my husband and I, who follow all the conventional coffee ideas, have a secret love at least it was secret until now for what we call diner coffee, which you get from diners and cheap restaurants.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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And my husband and I, who follow all the conventional coffee ideas, have a secret love at least it was secret until now for what we call diner coffee, which you get from diners and cheap restaurants.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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And my husband and I, who follow all the conventional coffee ideas, have a secret love at least it was secret until now for what we call diner coffee, which you get from diners and cheap restaurants.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Just beyond the diner is the New Empress movie theater, and on Saturday afternoons you will see a group of kids lined up outside waiting to go in and see a Western, some cartoons, and a chapter in the Buck Rogers weekly serial.
Excerpt: Welcome To The World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg 1998
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The expansive menu found at the typical American diner is great and all, but only because we all know what is on it (breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, cheap meat).
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Check out this retro-cool Twilight Zone bobblehead nicked from the William Shatner "fortune teller in diner" episode. [via Super Punch]
April 2009 2009
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Elaine was incensed that a certain diner featured only big-breasted waitresses -- until she discovered that all the women were the owner's daughters.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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Such behavior might make sense when a diner is willing to put up with a mediocre meal at a crowded chain restaurant to avoid the risk of food poisoning at a quirky neighborhood joint.
You Can't Be Too Thin Daniel Fisher 2010
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The expansive menu found at the typical American diner is great and all, but only because we all know what is on it (breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, cheap meat).
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