Synonyms for supper
ˈsʌp ərsup·per

Princeton's WordNet

1. suppernoun

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

2. suppernoun

   a social gathering where a light evening meal is served

   "her suppers often included celebrities"

Matched Categories

1. • Meal
   • Social Gathering

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1. suppernoun

   Synonyms:
   tea, evening meal

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1. List of paraphrases for "supper":

   dinner, meals, lunch, meal

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How to use supper in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

   This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

2. Montesquieu:

   Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

3. Herman Melville:

   I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

4. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

   The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

5. Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers:

   [When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.