dinner vs takeaway

dinner

noun
  • The food provided or consumed at any such meal. 

  • A meal given to an animal. 

  • A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea). 

  • A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion. 

  • The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. 

  • An evening meal. 

verb
  • To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine. 

  • To eat a dinner; to dine. 

takeaway

noun
  • A meal which has been purchased and has been carefully packaged as to be taken and consumed elsewhere. 

  • The preliminary part of a golfer′s swing when the club is brought back away from the ball. 

  • A concession made by a labor union in the course of negotiations. 

  • A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere. 

  • An idea from a talk, presentation, etc., that the listener or reader should remember and consider. 

adj
  • (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought. 

How often have the words dinner and takeaway occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )