DINNER PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dinner party mean? 

• DINNER PARTY (noun)
  The noun DINNER PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a party of people assembled to have dinner together

  Familiarity information: DINNER PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINNER PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A party of people assembled to have dinner together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

dinner; dinner party

Context example:

guests should never be late to a dinner party

Hypernyms ("dinner party" is a kind of...):

party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dinner party"):

banquet; feast (a ceremonial dinner party for many people)

beanfeast (an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees)

 Context examples 

We have had a very dull Christmas; Mr and Mrs Musgrove have not had one dinner party all the holidays.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mars will be in your eleventh house of events, so if you are single, a friend might invite you to a dinner party.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I wash my hands of the dinner party, and since you have asked Laurie on your own responsibility, you may just take care of him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"We'll work like bees, and love it too, see if we don't," said Jo. "I'll learn plain cooking for my holiday task, and the next dinner party I have shall be a success."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This could be a friend’s wedding, charity benefit, industry function or award show, cultural event or art gallery opening, designer fashion show or home-oriented Armory show, or a special dinner party.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Make the shroud, and lay him in my box, and after the dinner party, we'll have a nice little funeral, said Jo, beginning to feel as if she had undertaken a good deal.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That's a useful accomplishment, which no woman should be without, said Mrs. March, laughing inaudibly at the recollection of Jo's dinner party, for she had met Miss Crocker and heard her account of it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"How dare you remind me of that horrid dinner party, when yours is so nice in every way?" added Jo, as they both laughed and ate out of one plate, the china having run short.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"She has a big dinner party and he won't know a soul there." He frowned. "I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)