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supper    音标拼音: [s'ʌpɚ]
n. 晚饭

晚饭

supper
n 1: a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is
at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime
2: a social gathering where a light evening meal is served; "her
suppers often included celebrities"

Supper \Sup"per\, n. [OE. soper, super, OF. super, soper, F.
souper; originally an infinitive, to sup, take a meal. See
{Soup}, and cf. {Sup} to take supper.]
A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
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Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either
adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as,
supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour,
etc.
[1913 Webster]


Supper \Sup"per\, v. i.
To take supper; to sup. [R.]
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Supper \Sup"per\, v. t.
To supply with supper. [R.] "Kester was suppering the
horses." --Mrs. Gaskell.
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27 Moby Thesaurus words for "supper":
TV dinner, alfresco meal, barbecue, breakfast, brunch,
buffet supper, clambake, coffee break, cookout, diner, dinner,
elevenses, fish fry, high tea, hot luncheon, lunch, luncheon, mash,
meat breakfast, petit dejeuner, picnic, tea, tea break, teatime,
tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

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