dinner party

noun

: a party at which dinner is served
She hosted a dinner party at her apartment.

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Pick these up to woo the guests of your next dinner party, or just to woo yourself when the overhead light becomes too overstimulating. Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2026 Two couples, one dinner party — that’s the bare-bones basis of The Invite, an adaptation of the 2020 Spanish movie The People Upstairs that feels tailor-made to be franchised, translated to just about any language, and transposed onto just about any upper-middle-class milieu. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026 The Invite, Olivia Wilde’s farcical follow-up to Don’t Worry Darling, revolves around a (swinger) dinner party of four. Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 26 June 2026 In the movie, Wilde and Seth Rogen play a couple on the rocks, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton their intriguing upstairs neighbors who venture down for a last-minute dinner party. Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for dinner party

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“Dinner party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinner%20party. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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