Dine meaning
Dine is defined as to eat, or entertain people at dinner.
An example of dine is going out to dinner in a restaurant.
verb
To provide a dinner for, or entertain at dinner.
verb
Dinner.
noun
To have dinner.
verb
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To give dinner to; entertain at dinner.
Wined and dined the visiting senators.
verb
The Navajo people.
noun
The Navajo language.
noun
To eat dinner.
verb
dine on
- To eat a meal featuring or consisting of.To dine on lobster and shrimp.
idiom
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dine out
- To eat dinner away from home.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
dine on
Origin of dine
- Middle English dinen from Old French diner, disner from Vulgar Latin disiūnāre from disiēiūnāre Latin dis- dis- Latin iēiūnium fast
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Navajo the people
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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.
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