In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
dine
(verb) give dinner to; host for dinner; “I’m wining and dining my friends”
dine
(verb) have supper; eat dinner; “We often dine with friends in this restaurant”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)
(intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
(transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
dine (uncountable)
(obsolete) dinnertime
• Enid, Iden, IndE, Nide, dein, deni, enid, iDEN, nide
Dine (plural Dines)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dine is the 27974th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 857 individuals. Dine is most common among White (91.37%) individuals.
• Enid, Iden, IndE, Nide, dein, deni, enid, iDEN, nide
Source: Wiktionary
Dine, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.] Etym: [F. dîner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, D.]
Definition: To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
Dine, v. t.
1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.
2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine." Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.