What does dinnertime mean?
Definition of dinnertime : the customary time for dinner Examples of dinnertime in a Sentence I hate getting phone calls at dinnertime.
Is dinner the same as mealtime?
Even to the extent that you'll sometimes hear something like "we're having sandwiches for dinner, and dinner for tea", so that using "dinner" to describe the meal and the mealtime occurs in the same sentence.
Why do people call evening meals 'dinner' or 'tea'?
Commonly, people appropriate this word for an evening meal to make themselves sound grand. Growing up, we would have breakfast, lunch and tea and then, as the NZ chap wrote, cocoa/hot chocolate and biscuits as supper at around 9pm. This was in London. Nowadays, my brother refers to his evening meal as 'dinner'; I still refer to it as 'tea'.
What is the difference between lunch and dinner?
I say: Lunch = midday (any size) supper or dinner = evening (any size), but sometimes dinner is a big special meal instead of linch or supper, like Sunday dinner or Thanksgiving dinner. When a kid we only used supper but now only dinner. My grandfather (a farmer in NE Oklahoma) would regularly refer to a large midday meal as "supper".
Mealtime and meal patterns from a cultural perspective - Christina