diner

See also: Diner, dîner, dīner, and dinêṟ

English

Etymology 1

From dine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dī'nər IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

diner (plural diners)

1. One who dines.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

   • 1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings:

     When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

2. (rare) One who gives a dinner.

   Coordinate term: dinee

   • 1821, “On Collecting”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume I, Original Papers, number III, London: Henry Colburn and Co. […], →OCLC, page 361:

     In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire.

   • 2004, Will Jones, “Tina from New Mexico: Let Me Tell You ’bout This A**hole…”, in Let Me Tell You ’bout This…, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 145:

     f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?

   • 2020, Elle Katharine White, “Matriculation”, in Jonathan Strahan, editor, The Book of Dragons: An Anthology, New York, N.Y.: Harper Voyager, →ISBN:

     The street outside was nearly empty, though it wouldn’t stay that way for long. The dinner crowds would be out soon, hawking their blood and other valuable living assets to the vitally challenged for tokens and textbooks and practical tips on how to pass Professor Boynya’s first alchemy exam. Both diners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.

3. A dining car in a railroad train.

   Synonym: dining car

   • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:

     Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.

   • 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner:

     The diner is everybody's kitchen.

4. (US) A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.

   Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant

Derived terms

• dinerlike
• diner lingo
• diner-out
• Joe's Diner
• lounge diner

Related terms

• dinette
• dining room

Translations

dining car — see dining car

a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car

Bulgarian: ваго́н-рестора́нт m (vagón-restoránt) Catalan: vagó-restaurant m, cafeteria f Chinese: Mandarin: 餐車 / 餐车 (zh) (cānchē) Finnish: ravintola (fi), ruokala (fi) French: café-restaurant (fr) m, wagon-restaurant (fr) m Galician: vagón restaurante m German: Speisewagen (de) m Greek: μικροεστιατόριο n (mikroestiatório) Hebrew: מִזְלָלָה (he) f (mizlalá) Hungarian: étkezde (hu), kifőzde (hu) Indonesian: kedai makan, warung makan Irish: bialann f Italian: vagone ristorante m, ristoro (it) m Japanese: ダイナー (dainā), 食堂車 (ja) (しょくどうしゃ, shokudōsha) Kazakh: дәмхана (dämxana) Korean: 식당차(食堂車) (ko) (sikdangcha) Kyrgyz: даамкана (daamkana) Latin: popīna (la) f Latvian: restorānvagons m Polish: wagon restauracyjny (pl) m Portuguese: diner (pt) m, vagão-restaurante m Russian: ваго́н-рестора́н (ru) m (vagón-restorán) (dining car), закусочная (ru) f (zakusočnaja) Spanish: coche restaurante m, cafetería (es) f Swedish: matbespisning, kafeteria (sv) c, matställe (sv), servering (sv) Turkish: lokanta (tr), vagon restoran (tr)

Further reading

• diner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

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Andorran diner

Wikipedia

From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.

Noun

diner (plural diners)

2. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

Anagrams

• -drine, Idren, Indre, Riden, drein, rined

Breton

Etymology

From Latin denarius.

Noun

diner ?

1. denary

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar and denari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈneɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

diner m (plural diners)

1. (usually in the plural) money
2. (historical) denier
3. (historical) denarius

   Synonym: denari

Derived terms

• adinerar
• diner de Sant Pere
• diner negre
• diner verd
• diner viu
• dinerada
• dineral
• dinerari
• dineret
• diners comptants

Further reading

• “diner”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “diner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish dinair, from Proto-Brythonic *dinėr, borrowed from Latin dēnārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdinɛr/

Noun

diner m (plural dinerow)

1. penny

Derived terms

• dineren (“penny coin”)

See also

• peuns (“pound (currency)”)

Mutation

Mutation of diner

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
diner	dhiner	unchanged	tiner	tiner	tiner

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈneː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: di‧ner
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)

1. dinner, supper

Synonyms

• avondeten (neutral register)

Derived terms

• familiediner
• kerstdiner

Related terms

• dineren

French

Pronunciation

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

diner

1. post-1990 spelling of dîner

Conjugation

Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dinant /di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		diné /di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dine /din/	dines /din/	dine /din/	dinons /di.nɔ̃/	dinez /di.ne/	dinent /din/
	imperfect	dinais /di.nɛ/	dinais /di.nɛ/	dinait /di.nɛ/	dinions /di.njɔ̃/	diniez /di.nje/	dinaient /di.nɛ/
	past historic2	dinai /di.ne/	dinas /di.na/	dina /di.na/	dinâmes /di.nam/	dinâtes /di.nat/	dinèrent /di.nɛʁ/
	future	dinerai /din.ʁe/	dineras /din.ʁa/	dinera /din.ʁa/	dinerons /din.ʁɔ̃/	dinerez /din.ʁe/	dineront /din.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dinerais /din.ʁɛ/	dinerais /din.ʁɛ/	dinerait /din.ʁɛ/	dinerions /di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	dineriez /di.nə.ʁje/	dineraient /din.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dine /din/	dines /din/	dine /din/	dinions /di.njɔ̃/	diniez /di.nje/	dinent /din/
	imperfect2	dinasse /di.nas/	dinasses /di.nas/	dinât /di.na/	dinassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/	dinassiez /di.na.sje/	dinassent /di.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dine /din/	—	dinons /di.nɔ̃/	dinez /di.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

diner

1. alternative form of dyner

Portuguese

Noun

diner m (plural diners)

1. diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ne/

Verb

diner

1. alternative form of dner