diner

See also: Diner, dîner, dīner, and dinêṟ

English

A diner from the outside

Inside a diner in the USA

Etymology 1

From dine +‎ -er. Doublet of dinner.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dī'nər IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

diner (plural diners)

1. One who dines.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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?

   • 1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings:

     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.

2. A dining car in a railroad train.

   Synonym: dining car

   • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:

     Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.

   • 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner:

     The diner is everybody's kitchen.

3. (US) 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.

   Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant

Derived terms

• dinerlike
• diner-out
• Joe's Diner
• lounge diner

 

Related terms

• dinette
• dining room

 

Translations

dining car — see dining car

a small and inexpensive type of restaurant which may be modelled to resemble a dining car

• Bulgarian: ваго́н-рестора́нт m (vagón-restoránt)
• Catalan: vagó-restaurant m, cafeteria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餐車／餐车 (zh) (cānchē)

• Finnish: ravintola (fi), ruokala (fi)
• French: café-restaurant (fr) m, wagon-restaurant (fr) m
• Galician: vagón restaurante m
• German: Speisewagen (de) m
• Greek: μικροεστιατόριο n (mikroestiatório)
• Hebrew: מִזְלָלָה (he) f (mizlalá)
• Hungarian: étkezde (hu), kifőzde (hu)
• Indonesian: kedai makan, warung makan
• Irish: bialann f
• Italian: vagone ristorante m, ristoro (it) m
• Japanese: ダイナー (dainā), 食堂車 (ja) (しょくどうしゃ, shokudōsha)
• Kazakh: дәмхана (dämxana)
• Korean: 식당차(食堂車) (ko) (sikdangcha)
• Kyrgyz: даамкана (daamkana)
• Latin: popīna (la) f
• Latvian: restorānvagons m
• Polish: wagon restauracyjny (pl) m
• Portuguese: diner (pt) m, vagão-restaurante m
• Russian: ваго́н-рестора́н (ru) m (vagón-restorán) (dining car), закусочная (ru) f (zakusočnaja)
• Spanish: coche restaurante m, cafetería (es) f
• Swedish: matbespisning, kafeteria (sv) c, matställe (sv), servering (sv)
• Turkish: lokanta (tr), vagon restoran (tr)

Further reading

• diner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.

Noun

diner (plural diners)

2. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

Anagrams

• -drine, Idren, Indre, Riden, drein, rined

Breton

Etymology

From Latin denarius.

Noun

diner ?

1. denary

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar and denari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [diˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [diˈneɾ]

• Audio:

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Noun

diner m (plural diners)

1. (usually in the plural) money
2. (historical) denier
3. (historical) denarius

   Synonym: denari

Derived terms

• adinerar
• diner de Sant Pere
• diner negre
• diner verd
• diner viu
• dinerada
• dineral
• dinerari
• dineret
• diners comptants

 

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, 2024
• “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

Etymology

Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈneː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: di‧ner
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)

1. dinner, supper

Synonyms

• avondeten (neutral register)

Derived terms

• kerstdiner

Related terms

• dineren

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

diner

1. post-1990 spelling of dîner

Conjugation

Conjugation of diner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dinant /di.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		diné /di.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dine /din/	—	dinons /di.nɔ̃/	dinez /di.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “diner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

diner

1. Alternative form of dyner

Portuguese

Noun

diner m (plural diners)

1. diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ne/

Verb

diner

1. Alternative form of dner