Meaning

5 senses
  1. Someone who dines.

  2. (rare)Someone who gives a dinner.

  3. A car in a railroad train that serves meals.

  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.

    Speisewagen

    ваго́н-рестора́нvagón-restorán, заку́сочнаяzakúsočnaja

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

More definitions
  • a restaurant that resembles a dining car
  • a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
  • a passenger car where food is served in transit

Examples

174 sentences
  1. This patio can hold thirty diners.

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  2. Tom often eats breakfast at a diner.

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  3. Tom sat alone at one of the booths in the diner.

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  4. Let's find a diner.

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  5. Tom works at a diner.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: diners
Singulardiner
Pluraldiners

regular

Synonyms

23 synonyms

Word family

7 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • chuck's diner
  • at chuck's diner
  • to chuck's diner
  • chuck's diner is
  • chuck's diner has

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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