Supper vs Dine - What's the difference?
supper | dine |
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).
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
As verbs the difference between supper and dine
is that supper is to consume a snack before retiring while dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper.As a noun supper
is food consumed before going to bed.supper
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(wikipedia supper)Noun
(en noun)- a fish supper'''; a pizza '''supper
Derived terms
* kitchen supper * Last Supper * Lord's SupperSee also
* MealsAnagrams
* ----dine
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Verb
(din)- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.
