Synonyms for diner
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Restaurant — A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare…
restaurant, eatery informal US CA, dining hall, cafeteria US CA, pub UK, cook-house, buffet, lunchroom, canteen, automat, luncheonette, beanery informal, cookshack, choke and puke slang
2. Dining car — A car in a railroad train that serves meals
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
- n. 2
A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- host railroad car car carriage rolling stock
Forms
- Plural
- diners → restaurants, eateries, cafeterias, pubs…
Example sentences
- restaurant We had a dinner of a kind at the cheap restaurant.
- buffet Benedito's restaurant has a Thursday brunch buffet.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| diner | rising | |
| restaurant | rising | |
| buffet | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pub1
- 6 letters
- dinner2, buffet2, eatery3
- 7 letters
- canteen2, automat, beanery
- 9 letters
- cafeteria5, lunchroom2, cookshack
- 10 letters
- restaurant3
- 12 letters
- luncheonette3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dinner2 = 2 syllables).