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the daily summit where forks negotiate peace and family secrets accidentally spill into the gravy.
means The time of day set aside for eating dinner, the main meal.
from A plain English compound, simply welding 'dinner' to 'time.' 'Dinner' itself comes through Old French 'disner' (to dine), traced back to a Vulgar Latin 'disjejunare' — literally 'to break the fast' (the same root that gives us 'breakfast' on the other end of the day). Curiously, 'dinner' once meant the day's first big meal, eaten around midday; only as schedules shifted later and later did 'dinnertime' drift toward evening.
- Body clock
- hunger hormones spike on schedule, no clock needed
- French ritual
- the French average over two hours at dinner
- Phone tax
- shared meals shrink when screens join the table
- Word origin
- dinner once meant breakfast, the day's first break
- Memory glue
- family dinners predict kids' vocabulary and grades