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dine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /daɪn/
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Dinnertime.

dine en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /daɪn/
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. (transitive) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
    • 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. 2019 November 12, Claire North [pseudonym; Catherine Webb], chapter 60, in The Pursuit of William Abbey, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 328:
    • 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. 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 68:
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To dine upon; to have to eat.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dining Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dined Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dined Tense=Past lexicographic
dines Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

dine-in · dine in · dine out on · diner · dineware · dinette · dine out · dine and dash · dine with Duke Humphrey · dinery · wine and dine · dine on ashes · dine at the Y · interdine · dining · undined

Relateds

dinner

Synonyms

dinner

Translations (66)

la cēnō (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · hy ճաշել (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · fi aterioida (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · enm dynen (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · fr dîner (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · hi जीमना (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · uk повече́ряти (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · hu megvacsorázik (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · fur gustâ (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · tr akşam yemeği yemek (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · nap cenà (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · vi hàng (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · se boradit (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · grc δειπνέω (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · th ทานอาหาร (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · mwl cenar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · dlm cenur (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · gu જમવું (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · got 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · cs povečeřet (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · lmo zenà (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · it cenare (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ro lua cina (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · sc cenai (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · he סעד (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ar لاجل العشاء (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ca sopar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · be павячэ́раць (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ru у́жинать (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · uk вече́ряти (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · fi illastaa (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · nl dineren (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ar ليتعشى (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · rup tsin (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · grc δόρπον αἱρέω (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · eo vespermanĝi (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · rm tschnar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · fur cenâ (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · dlm prandar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · cs večeřet (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · io dinear (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · pl jeść kolację (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · da spise (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · hu vacsorázik (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · oc sopar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · eu afaldu (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · rm tschanar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · grc δεῖπνον αἱρέω (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · rm tschner (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · pl obiadować (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · bg вечерям (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · be вячэ́раць (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · es cenar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · sc genare (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · pt cear (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · sc chenare (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · rm tschenar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · pl jeść obiad (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · bg обядвам (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · pt jantar (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ru поу́жинать (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · scn cinari (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · de speisen (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · gl cear (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · ro cina (to eat; to eat dinner or supper) · he אכל (to eat; to eat dinner or supper)