Dinner

Dinner

Dinner is usually the name of the main meal of the day. Depending upon culture, dinner may be the second, third or fourth meal of the day. Originally, though, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten around noon, and is still occasionally used for a noontime meal, if it is a large or main meal.

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Famous quotes containing the word dinner:

    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment.”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)