a party of people assembled to have dinner together; "guests should never be late to a dinner party"
may be the noon meal in some areas. It is the evening meal when guests are invited to eat, i.e. a dinner party
A jacket appropriate for formal evening attire.
Not dinner as we know it today, but rather a kind of late lunch usually served between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. What we call dinner was what they called supper and it was served later in the evening between 7:00 and 8:00
In many parts of the world, dinner is the main meal of a day, normally cooked food consisting of animal proteins and starch products like rice, noodles or potatoes.