What does dine mean?
Definitions for dine
daɪndine
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word dine.
Princeton's WordNet
dineverb
have supper; eat dinner
"We often dine with friends in this restaurant"
dineverb
give dinner to; host for dinner
"I'm wining and dining my friends"
Wiktionary
dineverb
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
dineverb
To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. uE000113468uE001 Sir Walter Scott.
dineverb
To dine upon; to have to eat.
What wol ye dine? uE000113469uE001 Chaucer.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Dineverb
To give a dinner to; to feed.
Boil this restoring root in gen’rous wine,
And set beside the door the sickly stock to dine. John Dryden, Virg.To DINEverb
To eat the chief meal about the middle of the day.
Etymology: diner, French.
Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,
And from the mart he’s somewhere gone to dinner:
Good sister, let us dine, and never fret. William Shakespeare.Myself, he, and my sister,
To-day did dine together. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errours.He would dine with him the next day. Edward Hyde.
Thus, of your heroes and brave boys,
With whom old makes such noise,
The greatest actions I can find,
Are, that they did their work and din’d. Matthew Prior.
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dine
To dine refers to the act of eating a meal, typically dinner, in a formal, casual, or social setting. It can also mean to entertain someone by providing them a meal.
Webster Dictionary
Dineverb
to eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner
Dineverb
to give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men
Dineverb
to dine upon; to have to eat
Etymology: [F. dner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, Djeuner.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Dine
dīn, v.i. to take dinner.—v.t. to give a dinner to.—n. (obs.) dinner-time.—ns. Din′er-out, one who goes much to dinner-parties; Dinette′, a preliminary dinner, luncheon; Din′ing-hall; Din′ing-room; Din′ing-tā′ble.—Dine out, to dine elsewhere than at home; Dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without a meal, like those who, unable to procure a dinner, loitered about Duke Humphrey's Walk in Old St Paul's. [O. Fr. disner (Fr. dîner)—Low L. disjunāre, for disjejunāre, to break one's fast—L. dis-, and jejunus, fasting (cf. Déjeuner). Others explain disnare as from decenāre—L. de, inten., and cenāre, to dine.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
DINE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dine is ranked #27974 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Dine surname appeared 857 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dine.
91.3% or 783 total occurrences were White.
2.6% or 23 total occurrences were Black.
2.5% or 22 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.
1.1% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Anagrams for dine »
dein
deni
Enid
iDEN
IndE
Nide
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dine in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of dine in a Sentence
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The attacks were caused by Islamists ... that are opposed to the peace deal, aQIM, MUJWA and Ansar Dine have even met to put in place a coalition.
We're seeing more and more guests wanting to dine off-premise, wanting to use drive-thrus, wanting to do takeaway, with Covid this year, many of those shifts in consumer preferences have accelerated.
Though the rich man's dinner goes in at his mouth, the poor man must often be content to dine though his nose.
If you come here to dine and you happen to have celiac’s than you can eat the whole menu and don’t have to worry, but if you come here and dine and you don’t have celiac’s— you can eat the whole menu and leave here saying ‘wow that was a great meal.’.
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- تناول الطعامArabic
- павячэраць, вячэрацьBelarusian
- вечерям, обядвамBulgarian
- spiseDanish
- speisenGerman
- cenarSpanish
- afalduBasque
- dînerFrench
- दोपहर का खाना खानाHindi
- ճաշելArmenian
- cenareItalian
- cenareLatin
- dinerenDutch
- soparOccitan
- jantarPortuguese
- tschanar, tschnar, tschner, tschenarRomansh
- cinaRomanian
- ужинать, поужинатьRussian
- chenare, cenai, genareSardinian
- அருந்தவோTamil
- ทานอาหารThai
- повечеряти, вечерятиUkrainian
- hàngVietnamese
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