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DINING
dining
(noun) the act of eating dinner
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings)
Eating dinner as a social function.
Entertaining someone to dinner.
Verb
dining
present participle of dine
Anagrams
• indign, niding
Source: Wiktionary
Din"ing, n. & a.
Definition: from Dine, a.
Note: Used either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room, dining table, etc.
DINE
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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