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suppertime

noun

Etymology

From supper + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as suppertime — “supper + time”

Definitions

  1. The time when supper takes place.

    • Lacy couldn’t spell good but in big pencil letters he wrote that he had to go downtown and would be back before suppertime.

  2. The time when supper is ready.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for suppertime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA