
"Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings?
Apr 24, 2011 · 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 …
Confused by the British having “dinner” in the afternoon” and …
Sep 3, 2013 · For British school-children dinner invariably means the midday meal and has a host of derivative terms: school dinners, dinner money, dinner ladies, etc. Tea is the meal they …
Is there a version of brunch for a meal between dinner and lunch?
Lunch is usually a midday meal. In reality, there is no word for a meal in place of lunch and dinner (I assume you use dinner to mean an evening meal after a midday lunch.) Dinner could be the …
single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English ...
Probably we would name a meal breakfast, lunch, dinner, or supper depending on what it looks like and what time of day it is. We don't use the word tea for a meal, just for the beverage. As …
What is the single-word category name for such things as …
Apr 21, 2016 · Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner are called Meals. Non-meal light food consumption is generally called Snacks even if you're eating something that would normally be a dessert item. …
Correct order and terminology for meals in the day
In other words, dinner is technically breakfast. Similarly, lunch would be more like a generous snack between the two meals of a day. Dictionary definitions are just as ambiguous with …
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 …
Eat lunch or have lunch - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 22, 2014 · Lunch is a meal, it consists of food, and we eat food. The verb, have, allows us to say we consumed both solids and liquids. We don't normally say "I ate milk and biscuits for …
orthography - "Linder" or "linnder" for lunch/dinner - English …
We have plans for a late lunch / early dinner planned for 4:00 pm in mid December. I would like to indicate that it's more than lunch and less than dinner. I have heard it called linder or linnder.
What does “drunch” mean? - English Language & Usage Stack …
Dinner/lunch would surely be dunch – or, as I have always called it, lunner (also more parallel to brunch, which is the first part of the earlier meal and the last part of the later meal).