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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 [ˈdaɪnə]
n
1. (Business / Commerce) a person eating a meal, esp in a restaurant
2. (Business / Commerce) Chiefly US and Canadian a small restaurant, often at the roadside
3. (Business / Commerce) a fashionable bar, or a section of one, where food is served
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

diner
noun
1. (Chiefly U.S. & Canad.) café, restaurant, bistro, cafeteria, trattoria, tearoom, eatery or eaterie I ducked into a diner where I sometimes stop for coffee.
2. customer, guest, client, eater, feaster, banqueter, gourmand, picnicker They sat in a corner, away from the other diners.
Translations
diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] N
1. (= person) → comensal mf
2. (Rail) → coche m comedor, vagón m restaurante, buffet m (Peru)
3. (US) (= eating place) → casa f de comidas, lonchería f (LAm); (= transport café) → cafetería f de carretera

diner [ˈdaɪnər] n
(= person) → dîneur/euse m/f
(US) (= eating place) → petit restaurant m

diner
n
(= person)Speisende(r) mf; (in restaurant) → Gast m
(= café etc)Esslokal nt
(Rail) → Speisewagen m

diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] n (person, in restaurant) → cliente m/f (Rail) → carrozza or vagone m ristorante inv (Am) (eating place) → tavola calda
diner [ˈdaɪnəʳ] n (person, in restaurant) → cliente m/f (Rail) → carrozza or vagone m ristorante inv (Am) (eating place) → tavola calda

diner متناول العشاء host lille restaurant Speisender πελάτης εστιατορίου comensal ruokailija dîneur osoba koja jede commensale 食事する人 식사 손님 eter middagsgjest gość obiadowy pessoa que come em restaurante, (pessoa que come em) restaurante обедающий middagsgäst คนที่มารับประทานในร้านอาหาร lokanta müşterisi người đi ăn nhà hàng 就餐者


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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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