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Dinner is a term with several meanings.

Around North America in general, dinner may be a synonym of supper – that is, a large evening meal. However, in parts of Canada and the United States, dinner can be a synonym of lunch.

In the United Kingdom, to many people, dinner is a meal in the middle of the day but can also be used to mean an evening meal and there is sometimes snobbery and reverse snobbery about which meaning is used. school dinners is a British phrase for school lunches.

The word dinner originally meant a morning meal but this meaning is no longer in use.

A more formal definition of "dinner", especially outside North America, is any meal consisting of multiple courses. The minimum is usually two but there can be as many as seven. Possible courses are:

• Hors d'oeuvres (also known as Appetisers, Starters)
• Soup course
• Fish course
• Salad course
• Main course (also known as Meat course)
• Dessert course (also known as the Sweet or Pudding course)
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Some confusion is caused by the word entrée, which is used in America for the main course, but which was originally one of the earlier courses (most likely the fish course, when the main dish was red meat). In French, les entrées are the appetisers, and entrée is a somewhat pretentious word in Great Britain for the same thing ("Starters" is more commonly seen).

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