supper

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpə/

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• Rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)

From Middle English sopere, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.

supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)

1. Food consumed before going to bed.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     There he stood, with admirable patience, […] longing to go to rest for hours past; aware that suppers disagreed with him […] so tired and longing for bed!

2. Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.

   We normally have supper at 7.

3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

   a pizza supper

   • 2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches:

     Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers, one sausage supper, one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips.

• (meal): dinner; see also Thesaurus:meal

• soup

• → Japanese: サパー (sapā)
• → Maori: hapa
• → Welsh: swper
• → Zulu: îsápha

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

1. To consume a snack before going to bed.
2. To eat dinner.

sup +‎ -er

supper (plural suppers)

1. A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

• Ruppes, uppers

supper c

1. indefinite plural of suppe

supper m or f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

supper f

1. indefinite plural of suppe