dine
/daɪn/
dine verb: to eat; to eat dinner or supper.
Verb
dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)
- To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- 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...
- 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
- To dine upon; to have to eat.
Noun (1)
dine (uncountable)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dine
Dine (plural Dines)
- A surname.
Noun (2) capitalized: Dine
Dine pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of Diné.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dine
Dine
- Alternative form of Diné.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Dine
Dine
- A barangay of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
dine meaning in Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic and Thai
dine in Hindi
- to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- जीमना jīmnā
dine in Gujarati
- to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- જમવું jamvũ
dine in Arabic
- to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- ليتعشى, لاجل العشاء
dine in Thai
- to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- ทานอาหาร taan aa hăan
More languagesFewer languages
- dine in Vietnamese
- hàng
Examples of dine in a sentence
- The condominium lacks a proper dining room, but has a cosy dinette.
- As it was a sunny afternoon, we decided to dine alfresco on the patio.
- The limpid glass doors reveal the living room clearly from the dining room.
Synonyms of dine
Forms of dine
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | dines |
| present participle | dining |
| past participle | dined |
| past | dined |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Dines |
Origin of dine
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.
* As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Dine (see Vanduyne). * As an English surname, from digne, from Old French digne (“proud, dignified”), from Latin dignus. * As a French surname, shortened from Claudine.
Words formed from dine
Phrases with dine
Words that rhyme with dine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- design
- divine
- combine
- pine
- spline
- swine
- consign
- frankenstein
- nine
- refine
- vine
- whine
- benign
- chine
- in line
- intertwine
- recline
- resign
- rine
- undermine
- wine
- affine
- anodyne
- gold mine
- incline
- malign
- opine
- outshine
- propine
- red line
- shrine
- syne
- tine
- trunk line
- tyne
- atrine
- berine
- bine
- brine
- cline
- confine
- disentwine
- einstein
- equine
- offline
- quine
- repine
- rhine
Questions about dine
- What does dine mean?
- Dine means to eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- What is dine in Hindi?
- Dine in Hindi is जीमना (jīmnā). See Dine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dine?
- Dine can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce dine?
- Dine is pronounced /daɪn/.
- What is the past tense of dine?
- The past tense of dine is dined.
Words near dine in the dictionary
Source and license
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