diner
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diner¹
- /ˈdaɪ̯nə/ UK
- [ˈdaɪ̯nə] UK
- /ˈdaɪ̯nɚ/ US
- [ˈdaɪ̯nɚ] ~ [ˈdaɪ̯nɹ̩] US
Rhymes with -aɪnə(ɹ)
noun diners
- 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?
- Someone who gives a dinner. 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 pra
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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.
Similar: dining car, restaurant car
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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.
Similar: pub, choke and puke, automat, beanery, buffet, cafeteria, caff, canteen, cookhouse, cookshack, diner, dining hall
diner²
Where it comes from
From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.
noun diners
- A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dining car, buffet car, dining compartment, dine, supper, dinnertime, dining, dinner, meal, luncheon, lunch, lunchroom, restaurant, cafeteria, eatery, dining-room
Translations
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noun a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
| Español | coche restaurante, cafetería |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 식당차 sikdangcha |
| 日本語 | ダイナー dainā, 食堂車 shokudōsha |
| 中文 | 餐車 /餐车 cānchē |
| Português | diner, vagão-restaurante |
| Français | café-restaurant, wagon-restaurant |
| Deutsch | Speisewagen |
| Italiano | vagone ristorante, ristoro |
| Ελληνικά | μικροεστιατόριο mikroestiatório |
| Русский | ваго́н-рестора́н vagón-restorán, заку́сочная zakúsočnaja |
| עברית | מִזְלָלָה mizlalá |
Talk about this word "diner." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/diner. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. diner. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/diner "diner." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/diner.Cite this
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