Definition of Suppers

1. Noun. (plural of supper) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of supper) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suppers

1. supper [n] - See also: supper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppers

suppedaneous
suppedaneum
suppeditation
suppeditations
supper
supper-hour
supper-time
supper-times
supper club
supper hour
supper time
suppered
supperhour
suppering
supperless
suppers (current term)
suppertime
suppertimes
supping
supplant
supplantation
supplantations
supplanted
supplanter
supplanters
supplanting
supplants
supple
suppled
supplejack

Literary usage of Suppers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured. 12. Dinners cannot be long where ... More people are slain by suppers, than by the sword. 22. ..."

2. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical by Mary Foote Henderson (1889)
"GENTLEMEN'S suppers. As ladies have exclusive lunches, gentlemen have exclusive suppers. Nearly the same dishes are served for suppers as for lunches, ..."

3. The Cook and Housewife's Manual: Containing the Most Approved Modern by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1828)
"suppers. THE ingenuity of the genteel economist is as often taxed to contrive supper-things of scanty materials, as in arranging dinners, which admit of ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"SUMPTUOUS suppers, AND PRODI- GALL BANQUETING TIMOTHY, the son of Conon, captain of the Athenians, leaving his sumptuous fare and royall banqueting, ..."

5. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"It is known that dinners and suppers are everywhere customary, ... But dinners and suppers of charity are given only among those who are in mutual love from ..."

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