dine

[dahyn]

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verb (used without object), dined, din·ing.

to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.

to take any meal.

verb (used with object), dined, din·ing.

to entertain at dinner.

noun

Scot. dinner.

Verb Phrases

dine out, to take a meal, especially the principal or more formal meal of the day, away from home, as in a hotel or restaurant: They dine out at least once a week.

Origin of dine

1250–1300; Middle English dinen < Anglo-French, Old French di(s)ner < Vulgar Latin *disjējūnāre to break one's fast, equivalent to Latin dis- dis-¹ + Late Latin jējūnāre to fast; see jejune

Related formspre·dine, verb (used without object), pre·dined, pre·din·ing.

Can be confuseddeign dine

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Related Words for dining

feast, consume, lunch, banquet, sup, breakfast, supper

Examples from the Web for dining

Contemporary Examples of dining

Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.
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This bungalow has two levels, a screening room, a dining room, many offices, an art department, and cutting rooms.
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Houses sit together at their tables in dining halls under maroon banners emblazoned with their names.
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On the piano is a portrait of Lizzie, and replica skulls of the Bordens are displayed in the dining room.
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Historical Examples of dining

Where shall we set the tables, if we dance in the dining room?
Chip, of the Flying U
B. M. Bower
We were all together in the living room, all together in the dining room.
Her Father's Daughter
Gene Stratton-Porter
Vettius' dining room is empty of its wooden tables and couches.
Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae
Jennie Hall
As he was in dinner dress, Fanny asked him where he had been dining?
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
Every man has his own fashion of dining, remarked the philosophical American.
The Field of Ice
Jules Verne

British Dictionary definitions for dining

dine

verb

(intr) to eat dinner

(intr; often foll by on, off, or upon) to make one's meal (of)the guests dined upon roast beef

(tr) informal to entertain to dinner (esp in the phrase wine and dine someone)

Word Origin for dine

C13: from Old French disner, contracted from Vulgar Latin disjējūnāre (unattested) to cease fasting, from dis- not + Late Latin jējūnāre to fast; see jejune

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Word Origin and History for dining

c.1400, verbal noun from dine (v.). Dining room is attested from c.1600.

dine

late 13c., from Old French disner (Modern French dîner) "to dine, eat, have a meal," originally "take the first meal of the day," from stem of Gallo-Romance *desjunare "to break one's fast," from Vulgar Latin *disjejunare, from dis- "undo" (see dis-) + Late Latin jejunare "to fast," from Latin iejunus "fasting, hungry" (see jejune).

Idioms and Phrases with dining

dine

In addition to the idiom beginning with dine

dine out on

also see:

eat (dine) out
wine and dine