Synonyms for supper
ˈsʌp ərsup·per

Princeton's WordNet

1. suppernoun

   a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime

2. suppernoun

   a social gathering where a light evening meal is served

   "her suppers often included celebrities"

Matched Categories

1. • Meal
   • Social Gathering

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1. suppernoun

   Synonyms:
   tea, evening meal

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1. List of paraphrases for "supper":

   dinner, meals, lunch, meal

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1. Herman Melville:

   I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

2. Francis Bacon:

   Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

   This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

4. Overbury:

   If a man die young he hath left us at dinner; it is bed-time with a man of three score and ten; and he that lives a hundred years hath walked a mile after supper. This life is but one day of three meals, or one meal of three courses?childhood, youth, and old age. To sup well is to live well, and that?s the way to sleep well.

5. Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers:

   [When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.