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The definition of a diner is a person who is eating in a restaurant, a casual roadside restaurant with booths and a counter that traditionally resembles the dining car on a train.

(noun)

A person who is having a meal at a pizza restaurant is an example of a diner.
A casual laid-back restaurant on the roadside with a long counter, booths, a jukebox and a big menu of American food is an example of adiner.

See diner in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person eating dinner
☆ dining car
☆ a small restaurant built to look like a dining car
☆ a small restaurant with a counter along one side and booths on the other

See diner in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

One that dines: midnight diners enjoying the meal after the theater.
See dining car.
A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.

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