Dinner and supper are both terms for the main meal of the day, particularly that meal eaten in the evening. Supper is especially used when the meal is informal and eaten at home, whereas dinner is used when the meal is more formal. Supper can also refer to a light meal or snack eaten late at night in some dialects, particularly British English. Both supper and dinner have verbs in English that are closely related: sup and dine. Dinner is derived from the Anglo-French verb dinner, which means "to dine," via Middle English. The equivalent etymon for supper is the Anglo-French super, which means "to sup," and is related to supe, the noun for "soup."

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