The first meal, then called dinner in English, moved from before noon to around 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon by the 17th century.

'We'll call dinner off if you like,' I offered.

An hour later, Kelemvor returned with nothing save a healthy dread of the nuts he would have to call dinner.

If there is only one course and it is the main meal of the day, then it is called dinner.

There is usually a night for what is called "dinner on your own" at the conference, when it lasts three days and nights.

The midday meal, traditionally eaten by the captain about two o'clock and called dinner, was going to be a pleasant one.

The restaurant calls it an appetizer; I would call it dinner.

The same recipe, when served on Saturday at 6 or Sunday at 4, when company came, was called dinner.

It was just after six o'clock and the day's second meal - one could hardly call it dinner - was being served.

There was nothing to make into what Alison would have called a "decent" tea and dinner except tinned stuff, of course.