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diner

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din·er  (dnr)
n.
1. One that dines: midnight diners enjoying the meal after the theater.
2. See dining car.
3. A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.

diner
Noun
1. a person eating a meal in a restaurant
2. Chiefly US & Canad a small cheap restaurant
3. short for dining car
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dinerdiner - a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
cutter, carver - someone who carves the meat
eater, feeder - someone who consumes food for nourishment
dining companion, tablemate - someone you dine with
2.dinerdiner - a passenger car where food is served in transit
carriage, passenger car, coach - a railcar where passengers ride
3.diner - a restaurant that resembles a dining car
eatery, eating house, eating place, restaurant - a building where people go to eat
Translations
diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] n (person) (in restaurant) → comensal m/f;
(BRIT) (RAIL) = dining car;
diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] dine n (= person) → dîneur/euse;
(Rail) = dining car;
(US) (= eating place); petit restaurant
diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] dine nGast m;
(US) (restaurant) → Esslokal nt
diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] n (= person) (in restaurant) → cliente m;
(RAIL) → carrozza or vagone m ristorante;
(US) (= eating place); tavola calda


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My valet was all impatience to follow them; and was as fidgety about my dilatory movements as a diner out waiting hat in hand at the bottom of the stairs for some lagging companion.
For I must remark, Thrasymachus, if you will recall what was previously said, that although you began by defining the true physician in an exact sense, you did not observe a like exactness when speaking of the shepherd; you thought that the shepherd as a shepherd tends the sheep not with a view to their own good, but like a mere diner or banqueter with a view to the pleasures of the table; or, again, as a trader for sale in the market, and not as a shepherd.
Some diners have wine too upon the table, and in the pauses of thinking what a divine mystery dinner is, they eat.
 
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