dinner-goer

noun

One who has dinner at a restaurant or as a guest in someone's house.

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Meanings

noundinner-goer (plural dinner-goers)

plural dinner-goers

  1. One who has dinner at a restaurant or as a guest in someone's house.

    Justice Holmes was a most popular guest and an inveterate dinner-goer.

    1999, Walter F. Pratt, The Supreme Court Under Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921, →ISBN, page 23
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    Housed in the beached tugboat Danie Hugo near the jetty, the Tug is something of an obligatory destination for any dinner-goer in Swakopmund.

    2010, Matthew D. Firestone, Adam Karlin, Botswana & Namibia, →ISBN, page 324

Origin

From dinner + goer.

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APA

dinner-goer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner-goer

MLA

“dinner-goer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner-goer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dinner-goer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner-goer.

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