Diner
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noun


(1)   A restaurant that resembles a dining car
(2)   A passenger car where food is served in transit
(3)   A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
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Noun


  1. Agent noun of dine; one who dines; one who eats a meal, especially dinner.
    When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. –Calvin Trillin
  2. A small and inexpensive type of restaurant which is modelled to resemble a dining car.
  3. A railroad dining car.
    The diner is everybody's kitchen. –Richard Gutman

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