dinner or tea

dinner.
the main meal of the day.eten either around midday or in the evening.

tea.
a hot drink made by soaking the dried leaves ot the tea plant in hot water.
a light afternoon meal consisting of sandwiches, cake, ect.

No -Tea is a main evening meal - the dictionary is always right
My brother in law was born in Essex and said it was always known as Tea when he was there.

i got this from the dictionary!

Well so did I

you are right it dose also say that tea is "a cooked evening meal" and it's origin is chinese!

i think you can call it dinner or tea. myself i call it dinner at mine and tea at my mum's!!!!!!!!!!!

Never a true word spoken-atlast-some sense!!! Cheers Lillybet!!!

OK, so the dictionaries can't agree, either. I think, therefore, that it is incumbent on me to cast the deciding vote (because I feel like it! ).

TEA: A hot infusion of the leaves of Camelia sinensis.
DINNER: The main meal of the day.

Think of it this way - if the "hot infusion" version of tea had not existed in that form already, the word would not have been available for confusion with "dinner".

"Dinner" refers to the act of dining (eating). You cannot eat a liquid. QED.

Snorri
(I have spoken. Factus est)

Actually in the dictionary that I am looking at - The Collins English Dictionary - it doesn't mention Dinner at all It just says Dine - eat dinner - Diner - person eating a meal, chiefly US- small cheap restaurant and dining car -railway coach where meals are served and dining room - where meals are eaten. So no Dinner mentioned at all

Just admit it Foxy-you're out gunned,out manuevered and just wrong!

Your version of the dictionary is clearly wrong!!!

OMG please not another thread about this?! All that ever happens is the silly people who say tea are proven to be wrong (THE DICTIONARY IS ALWAYS RIGHT SO NER!!!) Now come on tea sayers I know it’s hard (particularly for the poor northerners ) but repeat after me....



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