Definition of diner for English Language Learners. : 1  a person who is eating dinner in a restaurant. : 2  a small, informal, and inexpensive restaurant that looks like a railroad car.
The word for kitchen in Spanish is cocina. Hear the pronunciation, see example sentences and Spanish meanings for the other related words: .
1839, American English, from Mexican Spanish cafeteria coffee store, from cafÃ© coffee (see coffee) + Spanish -terÃ­a place where something is done (usually business). The ending came to be understood popularly as meaning help-yourself (as though cafÃ© + -teria) and was extended to new formation with that sense from c.1923.