Collocations for "dinner"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "dinner" in context.
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dinner
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [hot, fancy, home cooked] dinner
- a [hearty, light, delicious, filling] dinner
- a [7] course dinner
- a [Christmas, thanksgiving] dinner
- [an awards, a gala] dinner (for)
- [at, during] the rehearsal dinner
- is [cooking, preparing, making] dinner
- finish your dinner!
- brush your teeth after dinner
- wash your hands before dinner
- are out for dinner together
- a dinner for two
- are having [steak, chicken] for dinner
- a dinner of [steak and eggs, chicken and rice]
- will have dinner at [8:00, the Chinese restaurant]
- will meet for dinner at [8:00]
- what time is dinner?
- what time are we meeting for dinner?
- what are we having for dinner (tonight)?
- dinner is [served, ready]!
- dinner will be [served] at [7:00]
- it is time for dinner!
- [lay, set] the table for dinner
- had dinner [out, outside, on the terrace, in the garden]
- dinner with [friends, clients, associates, co-workers, your husband]
- finish your dinner plate
- a dinner [party, date]
- sit at the dinner table
- is dinner time
- [see, look at] the dinner menu
- go to [the, a] dinner theater
'dinner' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Christmas
- Dutch
- Wednesday
- acquaintance
- all
- anniversary
- app
- appetite
- aside
- awful
- awkward
- babe
- bacon
- baked
- bean
- beer
- birthday
- biscuit
- black
- breakfast
- broccoli
- buffet
- cafeteria
- call
- candle
- candy
- chicken
- chip
- chuck
- classmate
- coax
- cock
- cold
- colleague
- combination
- come
- cook
- coordinate
- counterpart
- courtyard
- cover
- curry
- date
- delicious
- dessert
- devil
- diner
- dip
- disaster
- disgusting