diner
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: dī'nər IPA(key): /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -aɪnə(r)
Noun
diner (plural diners)
- One who dines.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- Calvin Trillin (1935-)
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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- A dining car in a railroad train.
- Synonym: dining car
- Richard Gutman
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.
- A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
- Synonym: pub (British)
Derived terms
Translations
a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a dining car
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Catalan
Derived terms
Further reading
- “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “diner” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: di‧ner
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Conjugation
Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | dinant /di.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | diné /di.ne/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | diner | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | dinant /di.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dine /din/ |
dines /din/ |
dine /din/ |
dinons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dinez /di.ne/ |
dinent /din/ |
| imperfect | dinais /di.nɛ/ |
dinais /di.nɛ/ |
dinait /di.nɛ/ |
dinions /di.njɔ̃/ |
diniez /di.nje/ |
dinaient /di.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dinai /di.ne/ |
dinas /di.na/ |
dina /di.na/ |
dinâmes /di.nam/ |
dinâtes /di.nat/ |
dinèrent /di.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | dinerai /din.ʁe/ |
dineras /din.ʁa/ |
dinera /din.ʁa/ |
dinerons /din.ʁɔ̃/ |
dinerez /din.ʁe/ |
dineront /din.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dinerais /din.ʁɛ/ |
dinerais /din.ʁɛ/ |
dinerait /din.ʁɛ/ |
dinerions /di.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dineriez /di.nə.ʁje/ |
dineraient /din.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dine /din/ |
dines /din/ |
dine /din/ |
dinions /di.njɔ̃/ |
diniez /di.nje/ |
dinent /din/ |
| imperfect2 | dinasse /di.nas/ |
dinasses /di.nas/ |
dinât /di.na/ |
dinassions /di.na.sjɔ̃/ |
dinassiez /di.na.sje/ |
dinassent /di.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dine /din/ |
— | dinons /di.nɔ̃/ |
dinez /di.ne/ |
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| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “diner” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Walloon
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