Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To have dinner.
- v. To give dinner to; entertain at dinner: wined and dined the visiting senators.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To eat the chief meal of the day; take dinner; in a more general sense, to partake of a repast; eat.
- To give a dinner to; furnish with the principal meal; entertain at dinner: as, the landlord dined a hundred men.
- To dine upon; have to eat.
- n. Dinner.
- n. Dinner-time; midday.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- v. transitive, obsolete To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- v. transitive, obsolete To dine upon; to have to eat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
- v. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- v. obsolete To dine upon; to have to eat.
WordNet 3.0
- v. have supper; eat dinner
- v. give dinner to; host for dinner
Etymologies
- From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre ("to break the fast"), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō ("to fast"), from Latin ieiūnus. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dinen, from Old French diner, disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from *disiēiūnāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin iēiūnium, fast. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I want you to dine with me -- really _dine_," she said, and her voice was both eager and repressed.”
“Come and dine with me at the inn,' he exclaimed cordially; 'if one may use such a word as _dine_ under the circumstances.”
“Fans will dine from a special Twilight Menu and see where the Prom and the end of the movie actually take place.”
“And the first place we are planning to dine is a vietnamese restaurant called Le Bamboo.”
“Under these circumstances, to dine is difficult – to go to bed superfluous – to sleep impossible.”
“The cabin, in which ten can dine, is high and airy, and, being forward, there is no vibration.”
“At ten we dine, which is the first meal we partake of in the day.”
“It is of course understood that Albert resided in the aforesaid street, appeared every day on the fashionable walk, and dined frequently at the only restaurant where you can really dine, that is, if you are on good terms with its frequenters.”
“May whoever coined that term dine with them forever.”
“After an early dinner downtown, my wife and I decided to stop by Nicks where I use to "dine" when I lived in Ladds Addition and see the mix of people that might show up for the Party.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dine’.
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Let's Eat!
Eating Verbs
boil, break bread, breakfast, chew, chomp, chow down, consume, cram, devour, diet, digest, dig in and 48 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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Tweets
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bilby "'There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract,' Andrew E. Kramer wrote in The New York Times.
Kramer's reference to 'suspicion' is an understatement. Furthermore, it is highly likely that the military occupation has taken the initiative in restoring the hated Iraq Petroleum Company, which, as Seamus Milne writes in the London Guardian, was imposed under British rule to 'dine off Iraq's wealth in a famously exploitative deal.'"
- Noam Chomsky, It's the Oil, stupid!, Khaleej Times, 8 July 2008. Mar 4, 2009