diner

[ dahy-ner ]

noun

1. a person who dines.
2. a railroad dining car.
3. a restaurant built like such a car.
4. a small, informal, and usually inexpensive restaurant.

diner

/ ˈdaɪnə /

noun

1. a person eating a meal, esp in a restaurant
2. a small restaurant, often at the roadside
3. a fashionable bar, or a section of one, where food is served

Word History and Origins

Origin of diner¹

First recorded in 1800–10; dine + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Zero Foodprint ended up suggesting a voluntary 1% surcharge on bills, just a few cents per diner, which can go to farmers to help them implement healthy-soil projects.

From MIT Technology Review

Unmasked diners seated indoors at full capacity sounds like, to be frank, a disaster in the making — which might explain why other states have not yet charged full speed ahead to reopening at full capacity.

From Eater

Customers must wear masks except when they’re seated, and diners must leave contact information for tracing, Cuomo said.

From Fortune

We finally did find a table, at a favorite place—La Scampagnata—and marveled at the sheer number of diners.

From Fortune

Restaurateurs can no longer cram diners in for tagliatelle and grigliata mista.

From Fortune

During that weekend, he writes, he met a two girls in a diner.

From The Daily Beast

“There are various iterations of my life out there,” says Billy Hayes, digging into his Eggs Benedict at a Manhattan diner.

From The Daily Beast

Eventually, even the most enthusiastic diner will tire of going to his restaurant.

From The Daily Beast

“You can host a sit-down diner for 140, and the house can accommodate 700 people at a party,” Davenport says proudly.

From The Daily Beast

In the new world order where every diner is a critic, there is a lot of feigned expertise.

From The Daily Beast

Then said he in himself, "Most like he knoweth not its value;" so he brought out of his pocket a gold diner and gave it to him.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrime gives the following note: C'est l'usage en Russie de prendre de l'eau-de-vie un peu avant le diner.

From Project Gutenberg

Hillhouse was not a regular diner with Cooper, but he introduced there a friend who became much more regular in his attendance.

From Project Gutenberg

This little girl's mother is to-day a celebrated beauty—and her next-door diner was farmed out and insured.

From Project Gutenberg

"Yes, there is one diner who has ordered a singular meal," replied a garon, in reply to a question.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bistro
• booth
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