Needs ticky-boxes - all 4 options are true, depending on context. Dinner can be either mid-day or evening - it is whichever is the larger of the two. Thus, you either have dinner and tea, or lunch and dinner. Tea can also be an afternoon snack.
well... when i were a nipper, dinner was midday, whether it was the main meal of the day or not. And tea was in the evening, wiwtmmon. Weekdays, tea was the main meal. Weekends, it was the other way about.
afternoon tea is an afternoon snack high tea is an evening meal that happens before 7pm late tea is an evening meal that happens after 7pm ;) tea is shorthand for any of those depending on context
Dinner is ...
... the main meal of the day, at whichever time you have it. dinner is one of lunch and supper(or high-tea...) and I personally don't mind if that's lunchtime or suppertime, but typically my days work best with the main meal in the evening because that's when there's the free time and the facilities (I'm at home) to cook it.
If you have high tea you might also have soup and roll before bed, and you can call that supper ...
Dinner is a mid-day meal, because a) I'm a proud and still somewhat unreconstructed northerner and b) one doesn't find "lunch ladies" in schools. Tea is what one eats after coming home from werk, as well as being a refreshing hot beverage served with lots of milk in a pint mug.
I grew up with dinner midday and tea in the evening. Brizzl working class. Now I have lunch midday and dinner in the evening, and no tea at all. But if I did have tea, it'd be sometime between lunch and dinner.
I think of both as eveningy, but I think 'tea' is more 5-6pmish, and dinner is more 7-8pmish, unless it's Sunday in which case it could just as well be 1-2pmish. Welcome to my idiolect :)
For me, "dinner" is the main meal of the day -- which may not even exist (e.g. when I went to school, I might have bread morning, noon, and evening). It could be at noon or in the evening. On weekends, it's typically at noon. During the week, it could be noon or evening, depending on circumstances.
A non-main meal at noon is "lunch"; a non-main meal in the evening is "supper". "Tea" is something you drink, not (for me) a name for a meal. (I only came across "tea" as a name for a meal in the last year or so.)
I'm British but I grew up in Germany; my father left the UK ~1969 and was from Leicester, in case that matters.
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:05 pm (UTC)... the stuff in this mug in front of me.
afternoon tea is an afternoon snack
high tea is an evening meal that happens before 7pm
late tea is an evening meal that happens after 7pm ;)
tea is shorthand for any of those depending on context
Dinner is ...
... the main meal of the day, at whichever time you have it. dinner is one of lunch and supper(or high-tea...) and I personally don't mind if that's lunchtime or suppertime, but typically my days work best with the main meal in the evening because that's when there's the free time and the facilities (I'm at home) to cook it.
If you have high tea you might also have soup and roll before bed, and you can call that supper ...
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:31 pm (UTC)However if I was to have a proper cooked meal at lunchtime that would be dinner and then I'd have a snacky meal in the evening called tea.
Then again when I was at school I did seem to be the only one that called the evening meal dinner, everyone else seemed to call it supper.
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Date: 2006-05-19 07:19 pm (UTC)Now I have lunch midday and dinner in the evening, and no tea at all. But if I did have tea, it'd be sometime between lunch and dinner.
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Date: 2006-05-19 07:55 pm (UTC)Tea = evening meal (ie. breakfast, dinner, tea) at the weekend.
Dinner = midday meal at the weekend and evening meal during the week.
Afternoon tea = afternoon snack.
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Date: 2006-05-20 04:16 pm (UTC)A non-main meal at noon is "lunch"; a non-main meal in the evening is "supper". "Tea" is something you drink, not (for me) a name for a meal. (I only came across "tea" as a name for a meal in the last year or so.)
I'm British but I grew up in Germany; my father left the UK ~1969 and was from Leicester, in case that matters.