noun
Meaning 1
Someone who dines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
diner
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ̯nə/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈdaɪ̯nə]
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General-American: /ˈdaɪ̯nɚ/
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General-American: [ˈdaɪ̯nɚ] ~ [ˈdaɪ̯nɹ̩]
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rhymes with -aɪnə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: D AY1 N ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Someone who gives a dinner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: host
noun
Meaning 3
A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dining car, restaurant car
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: railroad car, rail car, car, carriage, rolling stock, vehicle
noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pub, choke and puke, automat, beanery, buffet, cafeteria, caff, canteen, cookhouse, cookshack, diner, dining hall, eatery, hashery, hotel, luncheonette, lunchroom, noshery, restaurant
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a restaurant that resembles a dining car
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: restaurant, eating house, eating place, eatery
noun
Meaning 7
a passenger car where food is served in transit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dining car, dining compartment, buffet car
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: passenger car, coach, carriage
noun
Meaning 8
a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eater, feeder
Narrower terms: cutter, carver, tablemate, dining companion
History
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.
From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Esperanto: manĝanto — one who dines
- Polish: gość — one who dines
- Bulgarian: ваго́н-рестора́нт (vagón-restoránt) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Catalan: vagó-restaurant — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Catalan: cafeteria — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Chinese Mandarin: 餐車 /餐车 (cānchē) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Finnish: ravintola — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Finnish: ruokala — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- French: café-restaurant — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- French: wagon-restaurant — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Galician: vagón restaurante — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- German: Speisewagen — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Greek: μικροεστιατόριο (mikroestiatório) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Hebrew: מִזְלָלָה (mizlalá) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Hungarian: étkezde — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Hungarian: kifőzde — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Indonesian: kedai makan — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Indonesian: warung makan — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Irish: bialann — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Italian: vagone ristorante — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Italian: ristoro — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Japanese: ダイナー (dainā) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Japanese: 食堂車 (shokudōsha) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Kazakh: дәмхана (dämxana) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Korean: 식당차 (sikdangcha) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Kyrgyz: даамкана (daamkana) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Latin: popīna — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Latvian: restorānvagons — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Polish: wagon restauracyjny — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Portuguese: diner — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Portuguese: vagão-restaurante — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Russian: ваго́н-рестора́н (vagón-restorán) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Russian: заку́сочная (zakúsočnaja) — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Spanish: coche restaurante — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Spanish: cafetería — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Swedish: matbespisning — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Swedish: kafeteria — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Swedish: matställe — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Swedish: servering — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Turkish: lokanta — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
- Turkish: vagon restoran — a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car
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