Din"ner (?), n. [F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.]

1.The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

2. An entertainment; a feast.

A grand political dinner. Tennyson.

☞ Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913