Some people in Britain and Australia refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than "dinner" or "supper", but generally, with the exception of Scotland and Northern England, "tea" refers to a light meal or a snack.
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Contributor's comments: In Tasmania 'dinner' is usually the meal (or snack) eaten in the middle of the day; though, if the midday meal is a snack it may be referred to as 'lunch', especially by school children, ie it's lunch-time. 'Tea' is the evening meal.
From another question I found out that Australians and New Zealanders call lunch and snacks crib. On the Macquarie dictionary site, there are several (user contributed) theories about why, but nothing authoritative.
Dinner is the main meal of the day. If the meal you eat in the middle of the day is your main meal then it can be called either lunch or dinner. There is a tradition among some Australians to have a large family meal at lunch time on Sunday. It is often called Sunday dinner.
So, it's largely a question of formality, and most Australians use the two terms as the context calls for. Both mean the same thing in different circumstances. It's an evening meal, one way or another. The only other term is supper, though this is more archaic at this point and is not widely used by anyone.
However, in Australia, dinner would be referred to as the main evening meal, and supper would be snacks and food eaten later in the evening; which the US citizens would call a late night snack.
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And on NPR, food historian Helen Zoe Veit points out that in the past, especially in farming communities, the noon meal was the biggest one of the day. Which would explain why, in certain parts of the south, the word 'dinner' has persisted as a reference to the noon, rather than evening, meal.
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