dinner party

See also: dinner-party

English

Alternative forms

• dinner-party

Noun

dinner party (plural dinner parties)

1. A relatively formal meal at which invited guests eat in the home of the host.
   • 1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers:

     She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

   • 2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     If the dinner party does become extinct, I will mourn its passing. I like having them, and I love being invited to them.

Synonyms

• guestmeal

Derived terms

• a revolution is not a dinner party

Translations

A relatively formal guestmeal

• Armenian: ճաշկերույթ (hy) (čaškeruytʻ)
• Hausa: dinā̀ f
• Japanese: 晩餐会 (ばんさんかい, bansankai)
• Latin: concēnātiō f, polluctūra f
• Mongolian: оройн зоог (orojn zoog)