2011年4月24日 · Being a middle-class middle-aged southern Englishman it is quite clear what I mean: Lunch is the midday meal, tea is taken around 4/5pm and supper is the evening meal. If the evening meal is more formal and substantial it becomes dinner. Lower down the social scale the midday meal is dinner, tea is the evening meal and supper is a snack at bed ...

The crux of your question appears to be: can the words supper and dinner be used interchangeably? According to established dictionary definitions, the answer would seem to be yes. From Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – supper, n.1. The last meal of the day; (contextually) the time at which this is eaten, supper time. And also from OED ...

2013年9月3日 · The discussion at "Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings? already adequately covers that subject. Tea on the other hand can mean several difference things: It may simply refer to the drink. It may refer to Afternoon tea, which is a particular style of light meal, traditionally eaten at Tea time.

Sometimes people joke by coining a mixture of lunch and dinner/supper, giving lupper, dunch, etc. (As Kosmonaut mentioned.) You might refer to a small afternoon meal as afternoon tea, though to me (American) this sounds British and upper-class. Otherwise you'd probably just call it a snack or a late lunch, if it's bigger than a snack.

Supper refers to a snack had late in the evening, before bed (what you have called night time snack in your table). In the UK (and please, any English correct me if I have this wrong!) dinner refers to the midday meal, and tea to the evening meal.

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2016年4月21日 · the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper. one of these regular occasions or times for eating food. Snacks. a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.

These are not English words, but Greek (hyper) and Latin (super, ultra) prepositions.Hyper and super mean exactly the same thing, 'above' -- they're cognates, in fact; Greek initial S went to H, and Y was the Greek letter corresponding to Latin V (or U).

To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are. If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:

2017年6月8日 · It's all to do with specifics. I will have dinner ready at 6PM. This indicates a definite event. Dinner is a specific event.