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dinee

dinee noun: one who is given a dinner.

Noun

dinee (plural dinees)

  1. (rare) One who is given a dinner.
    • In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most...1821, “On Collecting”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume I, Original Papers, number III, London: Henry Colburn and Co. […], →OCLC, page 361
    • 1994 The paella didn’t turn out very well, but fortunately my dinees were quite understanding.1995, Chris Barker, “Episodic -ee in English: Thematic relations and new word formation”, in Mandy Simons, Teresa Galloway, editors, Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory, volume V...

Examples of dinee in a sentence

  • The names of both diners and dinees is constantly in flux; the game remains the same.1998 August, Gregg Kilday, “To Live and Dine in LA”, in Spencer Beck, editor, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 43, number 8, Los Angeles...
  • Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”.2004, Will Jones, “Tina from New Mexico: Let Me Tell You ’bout This A**hole…”, in Let Me Tell You ’bout This…, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford...
  • Both diners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.2020, Elle Katharine White, “Matriculation”, in Jonathan Strahan, editor, The Book of Dragons: An Anthology, New York, N.Y.: Harper...

Forms of dinee

pluraldinees

Origin of dinee

From dine + -ee.

Questions about dinee

What does dinee mean?
Dinee means one who is given a dinner.
How do you use dinee in a sentence?
The names of both diners and dinees is constantly in flux; the game remains the same.
What part of speech is dinee?
Dinee is a noun.
What is the plural of dinee?
The plural of dinee is dinees.

Words near dinee in the dictionary

  1. dined on ashes
  2. dined out
  3. dined out on
  4. dined with Duke Humphrey
  5. Dinedor
  6. dinee
  7. Dineen
  8. Dineens
  9. dinees
  10. Dineh
  11. dineodymium

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