0 the main meal of the day, usually the meal you eat in the evening but sometimes, in Britain, the meal eaten in the middle of the day: --
1 the main meal of the day, whether eaten in the evening or in the middle part of the day: --
[ C ] There will be a black-tie dinner and fund-raiser for Jubilee Housing on April 18th at the Mayflower Hotel.
[ U ] Conversation around the dinner table was always lively.
[ U ] What’s for dinner (= What food are we having for our main meal)?
[ U ] The restaurant is open for dinner from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The dinners were counted as part of his income.
Free school dinners sometimes cause grave embarrassment not only to the children who receive them, but even more so to their parents.
In other words, the premises must be suitable for the purpose of a restaurant which provides luncheon and dinners or both.
The settlement means cuts in social services, and it hits the aging population and children's school dinners.
In such cases the dinners are usually given in addition to and not in substitution for the supply of milk.
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].
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.
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.
