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dine

verb
/daɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

  1. derived from ieiūnus
  2. derived from *disiūnō✻
  3. derived from disner
  4. inherited from dynen

Definitions

  1. To eat

    To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

  2. To give a dinner to

    To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

    • Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.
    • I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.

  3. To dine upon

    To dine upon; to have to eat.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Dinnertime.

    2. A surname.

    3. Alternative form of Diné.

    4. A barangay of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

The neighborhood

Derived

dine and dash, dine at the Y, dine in, dine-in, dine on ashes, dine out, dine out on, diner, dinery, dinette, dineware, dine with Duke Humphrey, dining, interdine, undined, wine and dine

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA