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dined

/daɪnd/

dined is the simple past and past participle of dine.

Meaning of dine

Verb

dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)

  1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. (transitive) 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...
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To dine upon; to have to eat.

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Questions about dined

What is dined the simple past and past participle of?
Dined is the simple past and past participle of dine.
How do you pronounce dined?
Dined is pronounced /daɪnd/.

Words near dined in the dictionary

  1. dine-and-dash
  2. dine-and-dasher
  3. dine-and-dashers
  4. dine-and-dashes
  5. dine-in
  6. dined
  7. dined and dashed
  8. dined at the Y
  9. dined in
  10. dined on ashes
  11. dined out

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