Dine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /daɪn/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Dine is a verb meaning (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
Meaning
(intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
- (obsolete) Dinnertime.
Example Sentences
I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.
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.
Word Forms
- dines
- dining
- dined
Synonyms for dine
Depending on context, synonyms include dinner, sup.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sup, diner, supper, dinnertime, dinner, meal.
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