Dine
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Dinnertime. obsolete, uncountable
- 1 To eat; to eat dinner or supper. intransitive
- 2 give dinner to; host for dinner wordnet
- 3 To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. transitive
"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."
- 4 have supper; eat dinner wordnet
- 5 To dine upon; to have to eat. obsolete, transitive
- 1 A surname.
- 2 Alternative form of Diné. alt-of, alternative
- 3 A barangay of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
Example
More examples"Why don't you dine out with me for a change?"
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.
* As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Dine (see Vanduyne). * As an English surname, from digne, from Old French digne (“proud, dignified”), from Latin dignus. * As a French surname, shortened from Claudine.
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