supper

1. 1.

   a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

   Broadermeal

   NarrowerSeder
2. 2.

   a social gathering where a light evening meal is served

   “her suppers often included celebrities”

   Broadersocial gathering

Other forms of supper

plural

suppers·

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 supper

What does supper mean?

supper means "a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in supper?

supper has 2 syllables: sup-per. The stress falls on "sup". In IPA it is /ˈsʌpɚ/.

Is supper a common word?

supper is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.