diner

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 dī'nər

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who dines.
    — 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?
  2. A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
  3. Someone who gives a dinner. rare
    — In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire.
  4. A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
    — Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.
  5. A typically small restaurant, historically 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. US

词形变化

diners plural diners plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dinerlike diner lingo diner-out Joe's Diner lounge diner
相关词
dinette dining room

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English dine
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English diner
From dine + -er.
词源 2
From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.
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