Diner vs Supper - What's the difference?
diner | supper |
One who dines, an eater.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
A dining car in a railroad train.
* Richard Gutman
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 pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
Food consumed before going to bed.
Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).
As nouns the difference between diner and supper
is that diner is agent noun of dine; one who dines; one who eats a meal, especially dinner while supper is food consumed before going to bed.As a verb supper is
to consume a snack before retiring.diner
English
Noun
(wikipedia diner) (en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- 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.
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.
Synonyms
* (rail car) dining car * (sense) pubHyponyms
* (expert) deipnosophistsupper
English
(wikipedia supper)Noun
(en noun)- a fish supper'''; a pizza '''supper