dinnertime

[ din-er-tahym ]

noun

1. the period set aside for eating dinner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dinnertime¹

1325–75; Middle English. See dinner, time

Example Sentences

My sister-in-law got the phone call at dinnertime the night before we were to drive to a Wyoming guest ranch for a five-day, three-generation family vacation.

From Washington Post

To me it felt like a revolution, and it quickly redefined what I was serving at dinnertime.

From Outside Online

I may scoop my food onto the plate stove-side, but I set out cloth napkins and glass tumblers with the aim of spending dinnertime catching up on the day’s events.

From Washington Post

In households that got no incentives, the team found that people used soap at dinnertime 36 percent of the time, one to four months after receiving a dispenser.

From Science News

Baker says in addition to keeping as many walls open as possible, different tables need to be safely spaced apart, especially since people spend so much of dinnertime without masks on.

From Popular-Science

As dinnertime came and went, he and his wife and two young children, who had traveled to Beijing, had nothing to eat.

From The Daily Beast

For most of her childhood, Jenna (not her real name) spent dinnertime staring at a plate of food that she refused to touch.

From The Daily Beast

They go home and sleep until nine; then they reel, sleepy, to counting-houses and offices, and doze on desks until dinnertime.

From Project Gutenberg

There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime.

From Project Gutenberg

At one o'clock the men, guessing it to be dinnertime, stopped pretending to work and went away.

From Project Gutenberg

By dinnertime there were twenty-five holes in the cardboard strip; by tea-time there were forty!

From Project Gutenberg

There he would labour till two or three o'clock, his usual dinnertime.

From Project Gutenberg