Eat dinner vs Eat the dinner

The correct phrase is "eat dinner." Adding "the" before "dinner" is not necessary in this context. When talking about the act of consuming a meal in the evening, we simply say "eat dinner."

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Eat dinner

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to refer to the action of consuming a meal in the evening.

Examples:

Let's eat dinner together.
I usually eat dinner around 7 p.m.

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Unless you want to eat dinner.
I thought we could eat dinner here tonight, and make it special.
We sit together at the table, eat dinner.
But you can't just eat dinner.
Max, no snacks, honey, we're about to eat dinner.
You know, this is actually how a lot of people eat dinner every night.
So clean you could eat dinner off it.
And now the guy wants to eat dinner with his girlfriend.
We came here to eat dinner and to party.
We were supposed to eat dinner together to celebrate the closing of the deal.
Come home early so we can eat dinner together.
I guess I just forgot to eat dinner tonight.
Nice. It means we can all eat dinner in here together, now.
That and having to eat dinner with a lot of people you don't know.
The university club said the only way I could eat dinner there Was if I arrived in a cake.
Young Seon brought over some banchan (side dishes typically eaten with rice), so I wanted to know if we could eat dinner together.
Your father was lonely and I thought I might have to eat dinner alone, so I let him tag along.
He doesn't trust me to eat dinner alone because this one time, I ate next to Mandy Patinkin, and he fell in love with me.
Just long enough to miss dinner with my family, so that I can sit in front of the TV and eat dinner alone.
So, where do you want to eat dinner?

Alternatives:

have dinner
enjoy dinner
dine
partake of dinner
consume dinner

Eat the dinner

This phrase is not correct in this context. We do not use "the" before "dinner" when referring to the act of eating a meal in the evening.

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Then tonight we'll go to your house to eat the anniversary dinner.
I used to watch fancy dolls getting out of cars going in to eat the big dinner and they were always with pigs.
Sam bought Lindsey an aquarium for her ninth birthday, filled it with exotic fish, and she loved it for all of 24 hours until she realized that the... fancy fish eat the goldfish for dinner.
But watching you eat your dinner was the worst thing I've ever seen.
I eat dinner each night at precisely 8:00.
We sit together at the table, eat dinner.
We eat dinner with my family on Sundays.
Unless you want to eat dinner.
But you can't just eat dinner.
So clean you could eat dinner off it.
I thought we could eat dinner here tonight, and make it special.
And now the guy wants to eat dinner with his girlfriend.
Thanks for letting Grant eat dinner with us.
We came here to eat dinner and to party.
Just make sure Ziggy doesn't eat dinner before we do.
We were supposed to eat dinner together to celebrate the closing of the deal.
Director Choi wants to eat dinner tomorrow.
Come home early so we can eat dinner together.
I guess I just forgot to eat dinner tonight.
Tom and Mary often eat dinner together.

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