dictionary definitions for "dine"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dine
      v 1: have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in
           this restaurant"
      2: give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my
         friends"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Dining.] [F. d[^i]ner, 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, D?jeuner.]
     To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
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           Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
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     To dine with Duke Humphrey, 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dine \Dine\, v. t.
     1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to
        feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
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              A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie
              Armstrong and his merry men.          --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine."
        --Chaucer.
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