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dinnering

dinnering is the present participle and gerund of dinner.

Meaning of dinner

Verb

dinner (third-person singular simple present dinners, present participle dinnering, simple past and past participle dinnered)

  1. (intransitive) To eat a dinner.
    • Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp.2014, Caroline Akervik, chapter 6, in White Pine, White Bear Lake, MN: Melange Books, page 57
    Synonyms:
    dine
  2. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner.
    • She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181
    Synonyms:
    dine

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Questions about dinnering

What is dinnering the present participle and gerund of?
Dinnering is the present participle and gerund of dinner.

Words near dinnering in the dictionary

  1. dinnerboned
  2. dinnerboning
  3. dinnered
  4. dinnerette
  5. dinnerettes
  6. dinnering
  7. dinnerladies
  8. dinnerlady
  9. dinnerless
  10. dinnerlessness
  11. dinnerlike

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