supper

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpə/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sopere, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.

Noun

supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)

Food consumed before going to bed.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
  There he stood, with admirable patience, […] longing to go to rest for hours past; aware that suppers disagreed with him […] so tired and longing for bed!
Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
We normally have supper at 7.
(Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
a pizza supper
- 2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches
  Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers, one sausage supper, one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips.

Synonyms

(meal): dinner; see also Thesaurus:meal

Derived terms

kitchen supper
Last Supper
Lord's Supper
lupper
brupper

Related terms

soup

Descendants

→ Japanese: サパー (sapā)
→ Maori: hapa
→ Welsh: swper
→ Zulu: îsápha

Translations

food before going to bed

Afrikaans: aandete (af)
Albanian: darkë (sq) f
Arabic: عَشَاء‎ f (ʿašāʾ)
Armenian: ընթրիք (hy) (əntʿrikʿ)
Azerbaijani: şam yeməyi
Bashkir: киске аш (kiske aş)
Belarusian: вячэ́ра f (vjačéra)
Bengali: নৈশভোজ (bn) (noiśôbhoj)
Bikol Central: pamanggi
Bulgarian: вече́ря (bg) f (večérja)
Burmese: ညစာ (my) (nya.ca)
Catalan: sopar (ca) m
Cebuano: panihapon
Chechen: пхьор (pḥʳor)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 夜宵 (zh) (yèxiāo), 宵夜 (zh) (xiāoyè), 晚餐 (zh) (wǎncān), 晚飯／晚饭 (zh) (wǎnfàn)
Czech: večeře (cs) f
Dalmatian: caina f
Danish: aftensmad (da) c
Dutch: avondeten (nl)
Estonian: õhtustama
Finnish: iltapala (fi)
French: souper (fr) m (in French of France)
Galician: cea (gl) f
Georgian: ვახშამი (vaxšami)
German: Nachtessen (de) n, Nachtimbiss m, Abendessen (de) n
Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 m (nahtamats)
Greek: απόδειπνο (el) n (apódeipno)
Greenlandic: unnukkorsiut
Hindi: शाम का खाना m (śām kā khānā), रात का खाना m (rāt kā khānā)
Hungarian: vacsora (késői) (hu)
Icelandic: kvöldmatur (is) m
Ingush: пхьор (pḥʳor)
Italian: cena (it) f, desinare (it) m, pasto serale m
Japanese: 夜食 (ja) (やしょく, yashoku), 夜ご飯 (よるごはん, yorugohan), 夕食 (ja) (ゆうしょく, yūshoku)
Kazakh: кешкі ас (kk) (keşkı as)
Khmer: អាហារពេលល្ងាច (ʼaahaa peil lngiəc), បាយពេលល្ងាច (baay peil lngiəc), សាយមាស (saayaʼmiəh), បាយល្ងាច (baay lngiəc)
Korean: 저녁밥 (ko) (jeonyeokbap), 저녁 식사(食事) (jeonyeok siksa), 야식(夜食) (ko) (yasik), 밤참 (ko) (bamcham), 석식(夕食) (ko) (seoksik)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەربانگ‎ (ku) (berbang)
Northern Kurdish: şîv (ku) f
Kyrgyz: кечки тамак (keçki tamak)
Lao: ອາຫານຄ່ຳ (ʼā hān kham), ອາຫານແລງ (ʼā hān lǣng)
Latvian: vakariņas f pl, naksniņas f pl (very late)
Lithuanian: vakarienė f
Macedonian: вечера f (večera)
Malayalam: അത്താഴം (ml) (attāḻaṃ)
Maori: hapa
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: оройн хоол (orojn xool)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aften (no) m, aftensmat (no) m, kvelds m, kveldsmat (no) m, kveldsmåltid n, aftensmåltid n
Occitan: sopar (oc) m
Oromo: irbaata
Persian: شام‎ (fa) (šâm)
Plautdietsch: Owentkost n
Polish: kolacja (pl) f, wieczerza (pl) f
Portuguese: ceia (pt) f
Romanian: cină (ro) f, supeu (ro) n, masă de seară f
Russian: у́жин (ru) m (úžin), ве́черя (ru) f (véčerja) (obsolete)
Sanskrit: नक्तभोजन (sa) n (naktabhojana), सायमाशन n (sāyamāśana), सायमास m (sāyamāsa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐчера f
Roman: vèčera (sh) f
Slovak: večera f
Slovene: večerja (sl) f, južina f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjacerja f
Spanish: cena (es) f
Swedish: kvällsmat (sv)
Tagalog: hapunan, gabihan (after 8 PM)
Tajik: шом (tg) (šom)
Thai: ข้าวเย็น (th) (kâao-yen), อาหารเย็น (aa-hǎan-yen)
Turkish: akşam yemeği (tr)
Turkmen: agşamlyk (tk)
Ukrainian: вече́ря f (večérja)
Uyghur: كەچلىك تاماق‎ (kechlik tamaq)
Uzbek: kechki ovqat
Vietnamese: ăn tối
Westrobothnian: æfftaväl m, aftaväl m
Yiddish: אָוונטברויט‎ n (ovntbroyt), וועטשערע‎ f (vetshere)

dinner at night

Afrikaans: aandete (af)
Arabic: عَشَاء‎ f (ʿašāʾ)
Armenian: ընթրիք (hy) (əntʿrikʿ)
Aromanian: tsinã f
Belarusian: вячэ́ра f (vjačéra)
Bulgarian: вече́ря (bg) f (večérja)
Catalan: sopar (ca) m
Cebuano: panihapon
Chinese:
Mandarin: 晚餐 (zh) (wǎncān)
Czech: večeře (cs) f
Dalmatian: caina f
Danish: aftensmad (da)
Dutch: avondeten (nl)
Esperanto: vespermanĝo, noktomanĝo
Finnish: illallinen (fi)
French: souper (fr)
Friulian: cene f
Galician: cea (gl) f
German: Abendessen (de) n
Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 m (nahtamats)
Greek: δείπνο (el) n (deípno) (before 8 PM, larger meal), βραδινό (el) n (vradinó) (8 PM to before 11 PM, smaller meal)
Ancient: δόρπον n (dórpon) (early usage), δεῖπνον n (deîpnon) (later usage)
Higaonon: panihapon
Hungarian: vacsora (hu)
Irish: suipéar m
Italian: cena (it) f
Japanese: 夕食 (ja) (ゆうしょく, yūshoku)
Korean: 저녁밥 (ko) (jeonyeokbap), 저녁 식사(食事) (jeonyeok siksa), 야식(夜食) (ko) (yasik), 밤참 (ko) (bamcham), 석식(夕食) (ko) (seoksik)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: şîv (ku) f
Latin: cēna (la) f
Latvian: vakariņas f pl
Malayalam: അത്താഴം (ml) (attāḻaṃ)
Maltese: ċena f
Maori: hapa
Norman: soupaïr m (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aften (no) m, aftensmat (no) m, kvelds m, kveldsmat (no) m, kveldsmåltid n, aftensmåltid n
Oromo: irbaata
Plautdietsch: Owentkost n
Polish: kolacja (pl) f
Portuguese: jantar (pt) m
Romanian: cină (ro) f, supeu (ro) n, masă de seară f
Romansch: tschaina f
Russian: у́жин (ru) m (úžin)
Sardinian: chena f, cena f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐчера f
Roman: vèčera (sh) f
Sicilian: cena (scn) f
Slovak: večera f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjacerja f
Spanish: cena (es) f
Swedish: kvällsmat (sv) c
Tagalog: hapunan
Ukrainian: вече́ря f (večérja)
Urdu: عشائیہ‎ (iśāiyā)
Vietnamese: bữa chiều
Yiddish: וועטשערע‎ f (vetshere)

evening meal

Bulgarian: вечеря (bg) f (večerja)
Esperanto: vespermangxo
Finnish: illallinen (fi), iltapala (fi)
Galician: cea (gl) f
Georgian: ვახშამი (vaxšami)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aften (no) m, aftensmat (no) m, kvelds m, kveldsmat (no) m, kveldsmåltid n, aftensmåltid n
Swedish: middag (sv) c

Verb

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

To consume a snack before retiring.
To eat dinner (see above).

Translations

to eat dinner

Arabic: تَعَشَّى‎ (ar) (taʿaššā)
Armenian: ընթրել (hy) (əntʿrel)
Bulgarian: вечерям (večerjam)
Catalan: sopar (ca)
Finnish: illallistaa (fi)
French: souper (fr)
German: abendessen (de)
Greek: αποδειπνώ (apodeipnó) (1), δειπνώ (el) (deipnó) (2)
Latvian: vakariņot
Macedonian: ве́чера (véčera)
Maori: hapa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: none
Polish: wieczerzać (pl) impf
Portuguese: jantar (pt)
Romanian: cina (ro), supa (ro)
Russian: у́жинать (ru) (úžinatʹ)
Spanish: cena (es) f, cenar (es)

Etymology 2

sup +‎ -er

Noun

supper (plural suppers)

A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

Translations

drinker

Finnish: siemailija
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: vexwer (ku)

Anagrams

Ruppes, uppers

Danish

Noun

supper c

indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

supper m or f

indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

supper f

indefinite plural of suppe