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dinnertime

[ din-er-tahym ]

noun

  1. the period set aside for eating dinner.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dinnertime1

1325–75; Middle English. See dinner, time
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Example Sentences

Xiye Bastida’s parents met at a United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, and as she was growing up, climate was a regular topic of conversation at dinnertime and family gatherings.

Come dinnertime at 5 p.m., its menu shifts to family-style meals, featuring a large seafood lineup with bounties from its live fish tanks.

Chicken loved the pizzeria that gave them balls of fresh dough to play with, but their doors were locked until dinnertime.

It was dinnertime on a pleasant Philadelphia evening in May 1796.

There was no air conditioning, so people had to throw their windows open and risk all of their dinnertime conversations being overheard.

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