SUPPERTIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suppertime mean? 

• SUPPERTIME (noun)
  The noun SUPPERTIME has 1 sense:

1. the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal

  Familiarity information: SUPPERTIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPERTIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The customary or habitual hour for the evening meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

dinnertime; suppertime

Hypernyms ("suppertime" is a kind of...):

mealtime (the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten)

 Context examples 

He did not speak to her again till suppertime, when he saw her drinking champagne with Ned and his friend Fisher, who were behaving 'like a pair of fools', as Laurie said to himself, for he felt a brotherly sort of right to watch over the Marches and fight their battles whenever a defender was needed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)