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Meaning of dinner lady | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.

British, informal

Equivalents

Svenska mattant

Examples

“Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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