different between diner vs hashhouse

English

Etymology

dine +? -er

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?'n?r IPA^(key): /?da?n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(r)

Noun

diner (plural diners)

1. One who dines.
   • 1983, Calvin Trillin, Third Helpings

     When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

2. A dining car in a railroad train.

   Synonym: dining car

   • 1979, Richard Gutman, American Diner

     The diner is everybody's kitchen.

3. A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in 50s and 60s pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.

   Synonyms: (British) pub; see also Thesaurus:restaurant

Derived terms

• Joe’s Diner

Translations

Further reading

• diner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -drine, Idren, Indre, Riden, drein, rined

Breton

Etymology

From Latin denarius.

Noun

diner ?

1. denary

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?n?rius. Doublet of dinar.

Noun

diner m (plural diners)

1. (usually in the plural) money

Derived terms

• adinerar

Further reading

• “diner” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “diner” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “diner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “diner” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dîner, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French disner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?ne?/
• Hyphenation: di?ner
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

diner n (plural diners, diminutive dinertje n)

1. dinner, supper

Synonyms

• avondeten (neutral register)

Derived terms

• kerstdiner

Related terms

• dineren

French

Pronunciation

Verb

diner

1. Alternative spelling of dîner

Conjugation

Further reading

• “diner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

diner

1. Alternative form of dyner

Portuguese

Noun

diner m (plural diners)

1. diner (a small and inexpensive type of restaurant)

Walloon

Verb

diner

1. Alternative form of dner

English

Etymology

From hash +? house.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?ha?s/

Noun

hashhouse (plural hashhouses)

1. (US, colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
   • 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin 2005, p. 86:

     ‘We went out about three-thirty or so to get something to eat at the hashhouse around the corner,’ Hench said.

   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 88:

     In the big town, no job, has to deal 'em off the arm in hashhouse again, sad.