Word Meanings - DINNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many at a later hour. 2. An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson. Note: Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first

Additional info about word: DINNER

1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many at a later hour. 2. An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson. Note: 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.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• GRANDNESS
  Grandeur. Wollaston.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.