what is the difference between supper and dinner?

Answer 1

It depends on your culture and where you are from. In some countries like Canada, supper means dinner, they eat normal size meals at what we would call dinner time.

Just depends on your family and their traditions or backgrounds.

Answer 2

Not much, it's a matter of semantics. However, the word "dinner" can also refer to lunch or a meal taken in the afternoon, whereas "Supper" connotes a late dining experience ( you've heard of "supper clubs"). Bon appetit.

Answer 3

Techincally dinner is any meal (you dine) commonly dinner is another word for lunch, supper is the evening meal. If you think that's confusing add a few more languages. I speak English, French, Latin and Japanese and am currently adding Mandarin Chinese

Answer 4

sup·per -
A light evening meal when dinner is taken at midday.
A light meal eaten before going to bed.

din·ner -
The chief meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
A banquet or formal meal in honor of a person or event.
The food prepared for either of these meals.
A full-course meal served at a fixed price; table d'hôte.
[ American Heritage Dictionary ]

Answer 5

Supper was traditionally a big meal eaten in the midafternoon or noontime. Dinner is later and lighter.

Answer 6

In earlier times, "dinner" was your big meal and was eaten at the same time that we call "lunch" today.
"Supper" was a lighter meal eaten at the end of the day, at the same time we now call "dinner".

Answer 7

depends on where you grew up........in some places dinner is acutally lunch while supper is what most people know as dinner...I grew up in a place like that and know confuse the crap out of my kids lol

Answer 8

Dinner is the main meal
Supper is a light meal or snack before bed

Answer 9

my grandma said
breakfast, dinner and supper.

now people say
breakfast, lunch and dinner.

it was an older way of saying lunch.