lunchnoun
[ Cusually singular ]
a formal social occasion in the evening at which a meal is served, or the meal itself: 晚宴
hold a dinnerThey held a dinner to celebrate his retirement.他们举行晚宴来庆祝他退休。
Many prominent people were on the guest list for the dinner.
He organized a dinner consisting of several fish courses.
a charity/society/formal dinner
We're having roast chicken for dinner.
You can cook dinner tonight because I did it last night.
We've got eight people coming to dinner.有8位客人要到我们家来吃晚餐。
After dinner we settled in front of the television for the evening.晚饭后，我们舒舒服服地坐在电视机前。
"Would you like to have dinner with us?" "No thanks, I've already had mine."
She was seated next to the president at a dinner.
We are going to a dinner this evening in town.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Meals & parts of meals
accompaniment
afternoon tea
afters
amuse-bouche
antipasto
English breakfast
feast
feeding
finger buffet
finger food
plate meal
ploughman's lunch
postprandial
pot luck
power breakfast
tea
tea party
teatime
tiffin
TV dinner

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Celebrations, parties & special occasions

dinner | American Dictionary

dinner
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈdɪn·ər/
the main meal of the day, whether eaten in the evening or in the middle part of the day:
[ U ]The restaurant is open for dinner from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
[ U ]What’s for dinner (= What food are we having for our main meal)?
[ U ]Conversation around the dinner table was always lively.
A dinner is also a formal social occasion in the evening at which a meal is served:
[ C ]There will be a black-tie dinner and fund-raiser for Jubilee Housing on April 18th at the Mayflower Hotel.

Examples of dinner

dinner
The most frequent were the dinners, teas and treats for supervisory and sometimes for skilled elements of the workforce.
The best (the most ' powerful ') chef in the world would have abilities to ruin dinners intentionally far beyond those of persons with less culinary skill.
They combined for hearty, exclusively male meals, notably pre-expeditionary breakfasts and formal dinners at local inns.
The following section describes the discursive structure of the dinnertime encounter, including the frames and positions that occur during these dinners.
On the other hand, my aunts and my uncle often talk about it at family dinners.
Visits and dinners bear further examination here, as they served the widest range of political ends.
The chapter then proceeds to offer course settings and bills of fare for a wide variety of dinners.
Making extensive use of the railway network, the chiefs addressed political and religious meetings, attended dinners and functions, and toured factories and farms all over the country.
The reader follows the itinerant chiefs around the country, visiting the sights, and witnessing the innumerable meetings and dinners attended by luminaries of provincial and national life.
The evidence suggests that nurse prescribers are now targeted by the pharmaceutical industry, actively sought after through office visits and via invitations to dinners and special events [1].
In such cases the dinners are usually given in addition to and not in substitution for the supply of milk.
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