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dinner

noun

ˈdi-nər

Definition of dinner

as in banquet

a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment there will be a celebratory dinner at a local restaurant for the entire team

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Recent Examples of dinner Kerry offers to have dinner with the guests on their last night, hoping his presence will temper their complaints. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2026 One mid-June sunny evening, Maurizio Cattelan and Anna Weyant come for dinner. — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2026 Sabich died in March 1976 During the afternoon of March 21, 1976, Sabich went home after a training session to change his clothes before meeting a friend, Bob Beattie, for dinner, per The Denver Post. — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026 Get the first bake out of the way a day ahead, saving the browning for just before dinner. — Victoria Granof, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dinner

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Built around three Sichuan-style banquets, the show uses painting, video and installation to explore the region’s culture and its ideas about life and death.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026
Last week, during a state banquet for Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq at Windsor Castle, the King quoted a hadith, a saying of the prophet Muhammad, in Arabic.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2026

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Listed below are the feast days of notable saints, ordered by calendar date and chronologically when dates coincide.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
More popular are the evening Polynesian dance shows from groups like Kari Kari and Te Ra’ai, the latter of which comes with a traditional (if highly theatrical) umu feast cooked in an underground earth oven with hot stones.

— Mark Johanson, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2026

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