I've seen cases where a noon-time meal is referred to as dinner, and the evening meal is called supper. There's also lunch around noon followed by dinner in the evening. Is there a particular diffe...
The discussion at "Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings? already adequately covers that subject. Tea on the other hand can mean several difference things: It may simply refer to the drink. It may refer to Afternoon tea, which is a particular style of light meal, traditionally eaten at Tea time.
Those who eat their dinner earlier, say at 6-8pm might eat a light supper later on. Colloquially, some in the UK refer to their mid-day meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "supper".
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the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper. one of these regular occasions or times for eating food.
There are no rigid rules about this. Highly dependent on context and culture. Generally speaking, in a rural setting, "evening" begins about the time the work day begins to close, when the angle of the sun and the dimming light suggests that it would be wise to come in from the field and prepare for supper. (Note that in many places "dinner" is served at noon.) "Night" begins when it is too ...
If a specific hour is used, it could mean the first half of that hour, or could mean anytime in the hour, even rarely beyond the next hour, depending on the specificity of the sentence as a whole. "It's gone ten before Jim's in bed" is less specific than "It was gone eight before we were served supper."