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Dine is defined as to eat, or entertain people at dinner.

(verb)

An example of dine is going out to dinner in a restaurant.

See dine in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb dined, dining

to eat dinner

Origin: ME dinen < OFr disner < VL *disjejunare < L dis-, away + LL jejunare, to fast < L jejunus, hungry

transitive verb

to provide a dinner for, or entertain at dinner

noun

Obsolete dinner

See dine in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb dined dined, din·ing, dines

verb, intransitive

To have dinner.

verb, transitive

To give dinner to; entertain at dinner: wined and dined the visiting senators.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English dinen

Origin: , from Old French diner, disner

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre

Origin: , from *disiēiūnāre

Origin: : Latin dis-, dis-

Origin: + Latin iēiūnium, fast

American artist noted for his autobiographical paintings and sculptures of everyday objects such as tools and bathrobes.

noun

(used with a pl. verb) The Navajo people.
The Navajo language.

Origin:

Origin: Navajo, the people

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