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- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
Lunch is almost the midday equivalent of supper — it's also a lighter and less formal meal than Dinner, but is used specifically when referring to a midday meal So whether you use lunch dinner or dinner supper is heavily determined by when your culture traditionally has its largest meal
- Can supper and dinner be used interchangeably? [duplicate]
“Lunch” vs “dinner” vs “supper” — times and meanings? Wikipedia states that the words supper and dinner can be used interchangeably But I am not thoroughly convinced as, well, they are two different words According to Merriam-Webster dictionary: Supper is a light meal served late in the evening Dinner is the principal meal of
- When is afternoon? When is evening? When is night? Is there another . . .
Those who eat their dinner earlier, say at 6-8pm might eat a light supper later on Colloquially, some in the UK refer to their mid-day meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "supper"
- Confused by the British having “dinner” in the afternoon” and “tea” in . . .
The discussion at "Lunch" vs "dinner" vs "supper" — times and meanings? already adequately covers that subject Tea on the other hand can mean several difference things: It may simply refer to the drink It may refer to Afternoon tea, which is a particular style of light meal, traditionally eaten at Tea time
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English . . .
Also, the word supper is a bit of a regionalism (to me it's most familiar as a word used in parts of the Midwestern United States, although I think it's used in other parts of the US and other English-speaking countries as well) The more widely used word for the evening meal is dinner
- Is there a version of brunch for a meal between dinner and lunch?
Brunch has become quite a common word in the English language Is there a similar word for a meal in place of dinner and lunch? (A phrase will also do)
- Evening and night in English - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
How exactly are the words 'evening' and 'night' used in English? Are there certain times when evening, and when night, are considered to begin? Do these periods overlap?
- What is the single-word category name for such things as breakfast . . .
If Sunday, Monday, Tuesday are considered “days”, and spring, summer, autumn fall, winter are considered “seasons”, then what category name corresponds to things like breakfast, lunch, dinner, sna
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