ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (transitive) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
  3. (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

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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