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Definition of Dinnertime
1. Noun. The customary or habitual hour for the evening meal.
Definition of Dinnertime
1. Noun. The time when dinner takes place. ¹
2. Noun. The time when dinner is ready. ¹
3. Noun. (British) The mid-day break in English schools (some areas), lunchtime. ¹
4. Noun. dinner hour, the hour between 18h00 and 19h00 ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dinnertime
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinnertime
Literary usage of Dinnertime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poet Lore (1921)
"It must be dinnertime. First Blind Man.—For me it is rather breakfast time. ...
Tis dinnertime, I say. It begins to smell good at the inn over there. ..."
2. Adventure Guide Maui by Sharon Hamblin (2005)
"At dinnertime the pupus are especially good. Try them individually or as part of
... At dinnertime there's an oven-roasted Hawaiian spiny lobster tail or a ..."
3. A Synopsis of Criticisms Upon Those Passages of the Old Testament in which by Richard Arthur Francis Barrett (1847)
"... Sep., until dinnertime. And so Josephus. Others render until the appointed
time.—Ged. Pool.—15 To the time appointed; either 1 From morning to evening, ..."
4. World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: One Hundred and Eighty-seven by William James Sly (1914)
"At dinnertime a queer, little old man came up and said, " I'm so hungry. Give me
some of your dinner." " Be off," said the selfish boy, and he ate all his ..."
5. Fresh Woods and Pastures New by Edward Marston (1887)
"Other experiments for killing time he tried, and at length had nothing for it
but " to walk in the churchyard and whistle till it was dinnertime. ..."
6. Fresh Woods and Pastures New by Edward Marston (1887)
"Other experiments for killing time he tried, and at length had nothing for it
but " to walk in the churchyard and whistle till it was dinnertime. ..."
7. Life of Alexander H. Stephens by Richard Malcolm Johnston, William Hand Browne (1878)
"Rarely does a chance visitor call at Liberty Hall at dinnertime that he does not
find other guests, some of whom were as little expected as himself. ..."
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