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dinest

dinest is the second-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)

  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.

See all 6 meanings of dine

Origin of dinest

dine + -est

Questions about dinest

What is dinest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dinest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of dine.

Words near dinest in the dictionary

  1. dines on ashes
  2. dines out
  3. dines out on
  4. dines with Duke Humphrey
  5. Dineses
  6. dinest
  7. dineth
  8. dinetical
  9. dinette
  10. dinettes
  11. dineutron

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