dines
/daɪnz/
dines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dine.
Meaning of dine
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...
- To dine upon; to have to eat.
Proper noun capitalized: Dines
Dines (plural Dineses)
- A surname.
Forms of dines
| plural | Dineses |
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Origin of dines
Patronymic from Dain.
Phrases with dines
Words that rhyme with dines
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about dines
- What does dines mean?
- Dines means a surname.
- What is dines the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Dines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dine.
- What part of speech is dines?
- Dines is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce dines?
- Dines is pronounced /daɪnz/.
Words near dines in the dictionary
Source and license
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