Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dinner party

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.70 in modern English

Syllables: din-ner -par-ty
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A relatively formal meal at which invited guests eat in the home of the host.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

dinner parties (plural) dinner-party (alternative)

Phrases

a revolution is not a dinner party virtual dinner party

Synonyms

guestmeal dinner

Questions

What does dinner party mean?: A relatively formal meal at which invited guests eat in the home of the host.

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