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supper

[suhp-er] / ˈsʌp ər /


NOUN
reception
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
disacknowledgment




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"I wanted to come to Nidhi and Vik's supper because I felt so far away from home. I wanted to feel safe, comfortable, and at home."

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,” the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: “If their song is sweet to hear.”

From Salon May 15, 2026

How could the staid old supper table compete with that?

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

"The restaurant we went up to last night for supper, they were all talking about it."

From Barron's Apr. 1, 2026

Every night at supper we brought up dog sled racing.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

President Andrew Crook said the price of cod had doubled in the past year and claimed consumers were ditching fish suppers for cheaper ready meals.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2025

And having spent years living in and traveling through the South, I’ve also seen what these restaurants mean to people: family road trips, post-church lunches, Friday night suppers punctuated by rocking-chair visits.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2025

The heart of the space is an airy, sophisticated sitting room that connects on the south side to a dining room suggestive of decadent late night suppers in postwar Paris, and an industrial-inflected kitchen.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2024

“It’s not all open vistas of the seas and shingled cottages of the rich. It’s cold, hard, long winters, people having bean suppers at church, traditions that go back to the 1600s.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2023

The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl




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