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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alfresco lunch/supper etc
buffet breakfast/lunch/supper
▪ The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ I went home to the cottage, had an early supper, then set off on the walk to the post office.
▪ Choir night, so I get myself an early supper.
late
▪ Kim spends most of her time in the kitchen, charting the progress of her late supper.
▪ I arrived late for supper, having got stuck in the flats with my boat.
▪ Suppose they go out for a late supper?
light
▪ On Thursday night we had a light supper after we'd registered and unpacked our things.
▪ They suggest serving it for a light supper with couscous and a mesclun salad dressed with raspberry vinaigrette.&038;.
▪ He left for a light supper with Butch and Caduta at the Cicero.
▪ They had a light supper, played backgammon for dimes, sat listening to records in the living room.
▪ Robin's wife was providing a little light supper.
▪ The ticket price of $ 20 includes a light supper.
▪ Thirty-Seven On the table was a light supper, white wine in a cooler, candles in silver candlesticks.
■ NOUN
buffet
▪ After the visits, guests and Faculty members will join together for a buffet supper.
▪ Tickets to include champagne reception and buffet supper £57.50 from At Logiealmond Lodge, Perthshire.
▪ A buffet supper was served and a lot of goodwill was generated.
▪ A buffet supper will be served from 6.45 p.m.
▪ Tickets, to be bought in advance, are £4.50 and include a buffet supper.
room
▪ Lucille and the Countess sat by the supper room entrance.
▪ In the supper room Auguste would be running around like a scalded cat, metaphorically if not literally.
▪ Auguste went to superintend the tables in the supper room while Boris floundered around below.
▪ In the supper room Auguste lined up his troops for the fray.
▪ Toby was persuading a buxom young waitress to bring him a bottle of champagne from the supper room.
▪ He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced, then turned into the supper room.
table
▪ But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal.
▪ Several times that weekend around the supper table, he recited his own high school valedictorian speech.
▪ My vision of firelight and supper table and the friendly game of chess had been accurate enough.
▪ We sat long over the supper table pondering the incident.
▪ As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table.
time
▪ Nico, our host, serves cool drinks and limited snacks in the bar downstairs till supper time.
▪ I said, looking at my watch; it was almost supper time.
▪ Cake is always so perfect with coffee at supper time.
▪ By that time, way past my supper time, all I wanted to see was a menu.
■ VERB
bring
▪ I took out some of the bread and cold meat roll I had brought as my supper.
▪ The idea of a guest bringing his own supper!
▪ Will we for ever be free to roam the underwater kingdom, to bring home our supper?
▪ Go on down there with the boys and bring home some supper.
▪ He's not bringing me any supper.
▪ No one had come to bring her supper.
come
▪ Polidori came down to supper and sat next to me without saying anything.
▪ When Frank came back after supper, we started out for the fields.
▪ Mrs Patten will come in about supper.
▪ No one had come to bring her supper.
▪ After that Travis came to supper regularly.
▪ Get in touch on your return and come to supper.
cook
▪ Mrs McGill fries bread for breakfast, takes Chas to bed, cooks supper, lights oil lamp and nurses Nana.
▪ They had cooked groats for supper.
▪ While Janine and John cooked supper, he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow.
▪ I was starting to think about cooking some supper when I heard music.
▪ He left them cooking each other supper and drinking brandy.
▪ After dark, I got under cover to cook my supper.
▪ Time and again he had asked her to cook them for his supper, when she could at least bake them in a hot oven.
▪ Little groups stood about talking of the war or Brighton or what they were going to cook for supper.
eat
▪ I remembered I had brought it up to eat as supper and had fallen asleep.
▪ Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin himself, whose name was Boq.
▪ It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper.
▪ Nedim and Adi are there, eating their supper.
▪ Mr Singh was eating his supper, which looked very peculiar, all brown, and smelled delicious.
▪ She had to talk to him ... She couldn't eat any supper.
▪ The princes ate their supper in silence, neither of them having much appetite.
eaten
▪ After the four had eaten supper, Marlowe and Frizer quarrelled over who was to pay the bill.
▪ Hunger pangs-I had not eaten supper.
▪ It can also be eaten as a supper dish with a salad.
finish
▪ When he had finished his supper, he pushed the dishes to the other end of the table.
▪ When he finishes his supper, the boy tucks the lunch box back into a shopping bag and closes his eyes.
▪ In the dining-room, Goo-Goo was just finishing his unexpected supper.
▪ Maybe Omite would come back after the soldiers had finished supper.
▪ When we got back, some of the men were asleep and some were finishing their supper.
▪ It took an entire day of buses and hitching to get back to camp and when I did they'd finished supper.
▪ They had just finished supper and the girls were helping with the dishes.
▪ By that time, the staff in the kitchen have finished clearing up the supper things.
get
▪ Leaving the tower to its darkness and its solitude, he went into Mill Cottage to unpack and get his supper.
▪ She went to work getting my supper ready.
▪ I must go now and you get ready for supper with the merchant fellow.
▪ Toto ate a little of everything, and was glad to get a good supper again.
▪ In the evening I get supper and we've eaten and washed up by eight.
▪ It's so nice in here, not worrying about other people, or getting supper, or anything.
▪ Clear off and get your supper, the pair of you.
▪ Choir night, so I get myself an early supper.
go
▪ I got up and went down for supper.
▪ It was only when she went to supper that she found the reason why.
▪ All that winter, Charlie and I went out after supper and walked.
▪ My father never went to bed without supper, nomatterwhat happened.
▪ They shook hands and got in their cars and went home to supper.
▪ Then she went to have supper with Mr Wood and Linda.
▪ We fought once more, and went home to supper.
invite
▪ He and his wife Lida invited us to supper.
▪ It happened that on that same night Leith had invited Rosemary to supper.
leave
▪ I told Mrs Viney to leave our supper ready.
▪ He left them cooking each other supper and drinking brandy.
▪ He left for a light supper with Butch and Caduta at the Cicero.
make
▪ He had set the video up earlier in the evening while Elaine was making supper.
▪ Then she got up to make a salad for supper.
▪ Hence they would be no good for making supper directly, though they could construct a plan for making supper.
▪ Should she make supper for me?
▪ Hence they would be no good for making supper directly, though they could construct a plan for making supper.
▪ I forgot to make you some supper.
▪ Nora makes a supper of groats and curly kale.
▪ The long drive had tired her out and Jenna made her supper and went to bed quite early.
prepare
▪ She wondered if she should prepare something for their supper.
▪ There they will supervise their cooks in preparing supper for the husbands, who will troop home after Happy Hour.
▪ A man was preparing something for supper at a table.
▪ Which did seem to point to some one who knew about the curry soup being prepared for supper.
serve
▪ Aunt Edie served up a supper of fried eggs, bacon and tomatoes with bread and butter.
sit
▪ Lucille and the Countess sat by the supper room entrance.
▪ All I did was sit down for supper! and I get cussed out twice.
▪ We sat long over the supper table pondering the incident.
▪ Needing time to reminisce before looking at the films, we sat down for supper.
stay
▪ They sent me to bring him his tea, they seated me next to him whenever he stayed to supper.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After supper we watched a video.
▪ I had my supper and went to bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About three weeks after I moved in, she invited me around to her flat for supper one evening.
▪ After dark, I got under cover to cook my supper.
▪ At supper that night he tried to describe the experience to Kathy.
▪ Dishy meals Whether you want inspiration for a light lunch or an impressive supper, we can provide it.
▪ She was going to sell herself - she has sold herself by now - and would have sold me - for supper.
▪ So after supper with the Miyako divers I went with Nina to check that he was all right.
▪ The suppers became a huge success.
▪ We boil the rice and eat it cold with milk for supper.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supper

Supper \Sup"per\, n. [OE. soper, super, OF. super, soper, F. souper; originally an infinitive, to sup, take a meal. See Soup, and cf. Sup to take supper.] A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.

Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc.

Supper

Supper \Sup"per\, v. i. To take supper; to sup. [R.]

Supper

Supper \Sup"per\, v. t. To supply with supper. [R.] ``Kester was suppering the horses.''
--Mrs. Gaskell.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supper

mid-13c., soper, "the last meal of the day," from Old French soper "evening meal," noun use of infinitive soper "to eat the evening meal," which is of Germanic origin (see sup (v.1)).\n\nFormerly, the last of the three meals of the day (breakfast, dinner, and supper); now applied to the last substantial meal of the day when dinner is taken in the middle of the day, or to a late meal following an early evening dinner. Supper is usually a less formal meal than late dinner.

[OED]

\nApplied since c.1300 to the last meal of Christ.
Wiktionary
supper

n. 1 food consumed before going to bed. 2 Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon. 3 (context Scotland Northern Ireland slang English) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips. 4 A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups). vb. 1 To consume a snack before retiring. 2 To eat dinner (see above).

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WordNet
supper

  1. n. a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

  2. a social gathering where a light evening meal is served; "her suppers often included celebrities"

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Wikipedia
Supper

Supper is a French-Canadian word for afternoon snack.

Supper (album)

Supper is Bill Callahan's tenth album, released in March 2003 on Domino Records in Europe and on Drag City in North America under his then-alias (Smog). It was recorded by Jeremy Lemos from August to September 2002 and mastered by Nick Webb at Abbey Road Studios.

In 2004, the track "Vessel in Vain" appeared on the soundtrack of Shane Meadows' acclaimed British thriller Dead Man's Shoes. Also, in 2005, the track "A Guiding Light" appeared on the soundtrack of " Winter Passing". In 2012, the track "Our Anniversary" appeared on the soundtrack of Smashed and is played over the film's closing credits.

Supper (Spotify)

Supper is a web-based application on the Spotify digital music streaming platform. The Supper app was born from a group of friends who had backgrounds in the music and gastronomy industries. Digital music solutions company Artisan Council later executed it. The app now sits in the top 40 applications on Spotify.

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Usage examples of "supper".

Then supper was prepared sumptuously, and the new companion said unto the other, You ought to accompt me not onely your Captaine in robbery and fight, but also in pleasures and jolity, whereupon by and by with pleasant cheere he prepared meat, and trimming up the house he set all things in order, and brought the pottage and dainty dishes to the Table: but above all he plyed them wel with great pots and jugs of wine.

An elegant supper was provided for the entertainment of the bishop, and his Christian friends were permitted for the last time to enjoy his society, whilst the streets were filled with a multitude of the faithful, anxious and alarmed at the approaching fate of their spiritual father.

A lot of slatternly women flitted hither and thither in a hurry, with coffee-pots, plates of bread, and other appurtenances to supper, and these were said to be the wives of the Angel--or some of them, at least.

They is Artotyrites, believe Jesus at Last Supper consecrates bread and cheese, because they say that normal food of ancient patriarchs.

Mister Gosling had gone to the Jolly Bargeman to fetch back their supper, and the McDippers were below.

His valise was left behind at the inn, for he proposed to return there in the evening, and had indeed bespoken for himself a snug little supper.

That night when the greetings and the supper were over, the entire family, including Buff, the yellow dog, bestrewed itself upon the front porch.

Bishop Bisse in 1717, and above it a Decorated window containing a stained glass representation of the Last Supper after the picture by Benjamin West.

Strephon, her melancholy was anything but green and yellow: it was as genuine white and red as occupation, mountain air, thyme-fed mutton, thick cream, and fat bacon could make it: to say nothing of an occasional glass of double X, which Ap-Llymry, who yielded to no man west of the Wrekin in brewage, never failed to press upon her at dinner and supper.

He got supper on the table while he argued with her, dishing up brisket and cornbread and those little, red potatoes.

They played for a long time a simple game called brisque and then they had supper and went to bed.

Said, Tak hame a wee flow to your wife, To help to be brose to your supper.

Soon it was full of shepherds, come in to a supper of brose, cheese, milk and bannocks.

As he left the supper room Lord Am brose, seeming a little unsteady on his feet, said to her, I have a friend who admires you and wishes to reveal his identity to you, my lady.

On leaving the place, he brought me for supper to an inn where we met four scoundrels of his own stamp.