as in banquet
a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment
there will be a celebratory dinner at a local restaurant for the entire team
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The new menu will include the chain's $5 Meal Deal as well as exclusive in-app offers as well as a Buy One, Add One for $1 option for some of customers' favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner items.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Cielo is their beachside, open air, all-day Mediterranean restaurant and shisha lounge serving meals from breakfast through dinner.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
And there's always the parade and football while dinner is in progress.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024
The company is also holding dinners featuring local chefs who incorporate cacao into their meals, a day of merry crafts-making and a festive holiday market with chocolatiers and foragers, among other chocolate-centric things.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Cielo is their beachside, open air, all-day Mediterranean restaurant and shisha lounge serving meals from breakfast through dinner.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
And there's always the parade and football while dinner is in progress.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024
The company is also holding dinners featuring local chefs who incorporate cacao into their meals, a day of merry crafts-making and a festive holiday market with chocolatiers and foragers, among other chocolate-centric things.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Dinner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinner. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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