DINE
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
Etymology
Verb
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.
Noun
dine (uncountable)
(obsolete) dinnertime
Anagrams
• Enid, Iden, IndE, Nide, dein, deni, enid, iDEN, nide
Proper noun
Dine (plural Dines)
A surname.
Statistics
• 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.
Anagrams
• 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
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