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Definition of Diner
1. Noun. A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant).
Generic synonyms: Eater, Feeder
Derivative terms: Dine
2. Noun. A passenger car where food is served in transit.
Generic synonyms: Carriage, Coach, Passenger Car
Derivative terms: Dine, Dine
3. Noun. A restaurant that resembles a dining car.
Definition of Diner
1. n. One who dines.
Definition of Diner
1. Noun. Agent noun of dine; one who dines; one who eats a meal, especially dinner. ¹
2. Noun. A small and inexpensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a dining car. ¹
3. Noun. A railroad dining car. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diner
1. one that dines [n -S] - See also: dines
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diner
Literary usage of Diner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English by Joseph Kenny Meadows (1878)
"THE diner-OUT—we mean the knife-and-fork professor with a good and wide ...
But it is impossible that the diner-Out can feel one touch of mortal misery ..."
2. Social Silhouettes by George William Erskine Russell (1906)
"The diner-out orders his life on very different lines. ... The intending diner-out
serves his apprenticeship, so to speak, in the houses of his relations. ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"Snowy day, Mr. Gee sends his Son to invite me to diner to morrow at his house.
... After diner, notwithstanding the Fogg, I visited Mr. Bradstreet; ..."
4. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"... CRUISING FOR A CUTLET; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A diner-OUT. " I knew him in his
livelier London day* A brilliant diner-out. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... to show me the city as yourself, who are all the time going back and forth to
the town ? From the 'Epistolae^ iii. 31. FROM A PROFESSIONAL diner-OUT ..."
6. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 by Frances Trollope (1836)
"LETTER LXII. Expedition to Montmorency.— Rendezvous in the Passage Delorme. — St.
Denis — Tomb prepared for Napoleon. — The Hermitage.—diner sur l'herbe. ..."
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