Supper means supper, which mostly refers to home-cooked and informal dinners. Supper is also used to refer to the last supper before the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible. Dinner is the main meal or main meal eaten at noon or in the evening. It is the richest meal of the day. It mostly refers to a dinner party held for someone or something. It is a social gathering for dinner and is more formal.
What is the difference between supper and dinner?
1. Different meanings
1. Dinner mainly has two meanings:
(1) Refers to a meal (can be lunch or dinner).
(2) Dinner (mainly to entertain someone or hold an event).
2. Supper refers to dinner, "late night snacks" before going to bed, snacks before going to bed, etc.
2. Different usages
1. Dinner is mostly used to refer to a meal with rich food and a relatively large amount, which can be lunch or dinner. For example, when you are having a sumptuous lunch somewhere at noon, you can use Dinner.
Would you like to stay and have dinner?
Would you like to stay and have dinner?
Would you like to stay and have dinner?
2. Supper refers to a simple dinner or late-night snack with a small amount of food.
She gives the children their supper, then puts them to bed.
She gives the children their supper, then puts them to bed.
3. Different meal times
1. Dinner can refer to lunch or dinner, and the meal time can be as early as nine or ten in the morning, and as late as six in the afternoon or later.
2. Supper usually refers to dinner or supper, and the meal time can be from 5 pm to night. The difference between supper and dinner
In the college entrance examination syllabus, the meaning of supper simply refers to dinner and dinner, while dinner usually includes two meanings, one is dinner, which is three meals a day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, the other is the banquet, which refers to a relatively formal banquet. In fact, the root of supper is soup, and its Chinese translation is soup. Therefore, in the process of the development of English words, the meaning of supper for dinner has gradually been taken seriously. However, it is still commonly used in people's daily life. If it is written In terms of terms, choose dinner as much as possible. Due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, in European and American countries, dinner represents a formal banquet or a grand banquet, and generally has the meaning of a dance.
For example, for a formal state banquet or a large-scale family banquet, dinner must be used.