A young woman about to dine.
An example of dine is going out to dinner in a restaurant.
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intransitive verb
dined, din′ingOrigin of dine
Middle English dinen from Old French disner from Vulgar Latin an unverified form disjejunare from Classical Latin dis-, away + Late Latin jejunare, to fast from Classical Latin jejunus, hungrydine on
dine out
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dined, din·ing, dinesverb
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transitiveOrigin of dine
Middle English dinen from Old French diner, disner from Vulgar Latin disiūnāre from disiēiūnāre Latin dis- dis- Latin iēiūnium fastnoun
Origin of Dine
Navajo the people
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(third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)
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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