dinner

Other forms of dinner

plural

dinners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dinner

What does dinner mean?

dinner means "the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dinner?

dinner has 2 syllables: din-ner. The stress falls on "din". In IPA it is /ˈdɪnɚ/.

What is another word for dinner?

Close synonyms include dinner party. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dinner a common word?

dinner is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.