Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To have dinner.
- intransitive verb To give dinner to; entertain at dinner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dinner.
- noun Dinner-time; midday.
- To eat the chief meal of the day; take dinner; in a more general sense, to partake of a repast; eat.
- To give a dinner to; furnish with the principal meal; entertain at dinner: as, the landlord dined a hundred men.
- To dine upon; have to eat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- transitive verb obsolete To dine upon; to have to eat.
- intransitive verb To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
- intransitive verb to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
eat ; to eatdinner orsupper - verb transitive, obsolete To give a
dinner to; tofurnish with the chief meal; tofeed . - verb transitive, obsolete To dine upon; to have to eat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have supper; eat dinner
- verb give dinner to; host for dinner
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"I want you to dine with me -- really _dine_," she said, and her voice was both eager and repressed.
A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan
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'Come and dine with me at the inn,' he exclaimed cordially; 'if one may use such a word as _dine_ under the circumstances.'
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880
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Fans will dine from a special Twilight Menu and see where the Prom and the end of the movie actually take place.
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And the first place we are planning to dine is a vietnamese restaurant called Le Bamboo.
Cindy and Michele do Paris...just like the old days.. Michele 2007
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Under these circumstances, to dine is difficult – to go to bed superfluous – to sleep impossible.
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The cabin, in which ten can dine, is high and airy, and, being forward, there is no vibration.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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At ten we dine, which is the first meal we partake of in the day.
Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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It is of course understood that Albert resided in the aforesaid street, appeared every day on the fashionable walk, and dined frequently at the only restaurant where you can really dine, that is, if you are on good terms with its frequenters.
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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May whoever coined that term dine with them forever.
Latest Articles AP/YahooNews 2010
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After an early dinner downtown, my wife and I decided to stop by Nicks where I use to "dine" when I lived in Ladds Addition and see the mix of people that might show up for the Party.
bilby commented on the word dine
"'There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract,' Andrew E. Kramer wrote in The New York Times.
Kramer's reference to 'suspicion' is an understatement. Furthermore, it is highly likely that the military occupation has taken the initiative in restoring the hated Iraq Petroleum Company, which, as Seamus Milne writes in the London Guardian, was imposed under British rule to 'dine off Iraq's wealth in a famously exploitative deal.'"
- Noam Chomsky, It's the Oil, stupid!, Khaleej Times, 8 July 2008.
March 5, 2009