Definition of dine Dine

/dajˈn/ - [dayn] - dine

We found 11 definitions of dine from 6 different sources.

What does dine mean?

Verb dines, dining, dined
dine - have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant"
		eat eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
		dine in, eat in eat at home
		dine out, eat out eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
dine - give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends"
		feed, give introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"

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dine (v. i.)
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
dine (v. t.)
To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
dine (v. t.)
To dine upon; to have to eat.

dine
dīn, v.i. to take dinner.—v.t. to give a dinner to.—n. (obs.) dinner-time.—ns. Din′er-out, one who goes much to dinner-parties; Dinette′, a preliminary dinner, luncheon; Din′ing-hall; Din′ing-room; Din′ing-tā′ble.—Dine out, to dine elsewhere than at home; Dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without a meal, like those who, unable to procure a dinner, loitered about Duke Humphrey's Walk in Old St Paul's. [O. Fr. disner (Fr. dîner)—Low L. disjunāre, for disjejunāre, to break one's fast—L. dis-, and jejunus, fasting (cf. Déjeuner). Others explain disnare as from decenāre—L. de, inten., and cenāre, to dine.]

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