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# diner

«diner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who is eating a meal, especially in a restaurant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a diner, diners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A diner is a person who is eating a meal, especially in a restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#m1)

2) In the USA and Canada, a diner is a small, simple restaurant serving cheap meals like burgers, pancakes and milkshakes, often with a long counter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a waiter serves diners in a restaurant. In American stories and films families eat at the diner, sitting in booths. Phrases: a roadside diner, an all-night diner, diners at the restaurant.

### examples

- The diners clapped when the cake arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#x1)
- We had pancakes at the diner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#x2)
- The waitress served the diners quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#x3)
- The old diner had red seats and a jukebox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#x4)
- There is a diner by the highway that's open all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#x5)
- Each diner got a free drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/#x6)

### note

Countable: a diner, diners. Spelling trap: «diner» (one n, DY-ner) is a person or restaurant; «dinner» (double n, DIN-er) is a meal. Do not mix them up.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.