1
: a person who dines (as in a restaurant) or who is dining
2
a
b
chiefly US
: a typically small, informal, and inexpensive restaurant that has an extensive menu and that is often made from or designed to resemble a modified railroad dining car
had lunch at a roadside diner
Examples of diner in a Sentence
we'll just grab a quick hamburger at the local diner
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Buckets of free whistles have appeared on local diner counters and outside popular shopping centers.
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
During the brunch that started in the lobby bar with a Bloody Mary station and a spread of antipasti dishes, Burns roamed the room, cutting out silhouettes of diners with a pair of scissors in about 90 seconds.
—Sacbee.com, 3 Dec. 2025
The app, which was launched in partnership with the Start Path program, provided diners with data on different food items at UCL cafes, including the carbon impact of each item as well as PlanetPoints that could be redeemed at certain stores for products and services.
—Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
And despite having a common road looping around both malls, each center denied shoppers and diners easy access from one to the other.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
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Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
During the brunch that started in the lobby bar with a Bloody Mary station and a spread of antipasti dishes, Burns roamed the room, cutting out silhouettes of diners with a pair of scissors in about 90 seconds.
—Sacbee.com, 3 Dec. 2025
The app, which was launched in partnership with the Start Path program, provided diners with data on different food items at UCL cafes, including the carbon impact of each item as well as PlanetPoints that could be redeemed at certain stores for products and services.
—Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
And despite having a common road looping around both malls, each center denied shoppers and diners easy access from one to the other.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Diner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diner. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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diner
noun
din·er
ˈdī-nər 
1
: one that dines
2
a
b
: a restaurant in the shape of a railroad car
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