suppertime
nounEtymology From supper + time.
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.2006, Charles Davis, Angel’s Rest, Don Mills, Ont.: MIRA Books, →ISBN, page 143:
2
The time when supper is ready.
- Synonyms
- dinnertime
- Coordinate terms
- lunchtime, mealtime, supper hour, dinner, dinner hour