Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense dines, present participle dining, past tense, past participle dined
1. verb [no passive]
When you dine, you have dinner.
[formal]
He dines alone most nights. [VERB adverb/preposition]
That night the two men dined at Wilson's club. [VERB adverb/preposition]
They used to enjoy going out to dine. [VERB]
Synonyms: eat, lunch, feast, sup More Synonyms of dine
2. to wine and dine
Phrasal verbs:
See dine on
See dine out
dine in British English
(daɪn)
verb
1. (intransitive)
to eat dinner
2. (intr; often foll by on, off, or upon)
to make one's meal (of)
the guests dined upon roast beef
3. (transitive) informal
to entertain to dinner (esp in the phrase wine and dine someone)
Word origin
C13: from Old French disner, contracted from Vulgar Latin disjējūnāre (unattested) to cease fasting, from dis- not + Late Latin jējūnāre to fast; see jejune
dine in American English
(daɪn)
verb intransitiveWord forms: dined or ˈdining
1.
to eat dinner
verb transitive
2.
to provide a dinner for, or entertain at dinner
noun
3. Obsolete
dinner
Idioms:
dine on
dine out
Word origin
ME dinen < OFr disner < VL *disjejunare < L dis-, away + LL jejunare, to fast < L jejunus, hungry
Examples of 'dine' in a sentence
dine
A lifelong bachelor, he threw dinner parties rather than dine alone.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
What he may not survive is the implacable demands of the dining clubs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
More than half cook enough food for two dinners and two thirds regularly dine on leftovers.
The Sun (2010)
The patio that surrounds the pool is perfect for alfresco dining and entertaining friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Sunday night is film night in the dining room.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He would ask the concierge to dinner rather than dine alone.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The kitchen is well fitted, with a long wooden dining table on one side.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He says that few of his 40,000 staff care which school or dining club he attended.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The house has a kitchen, dining room and two sitting rooms on the ground floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He rarely meets contacts for lunch, preferring to dine out at night.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Apparently this was a Conservative dining club.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He retired here to live an idyllic life, dining weekly with two other naval captains.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
One cannot help feeling sympathy for one 's dining companion.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He dined that night, thank you for asking.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Dining with two friends in the airy atrium, she looked happy and relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Above the dining room is one of the project's nine residences.
Christianity Today (2000)
This set of six blue striped stainless-steel dessert spoons is great for both informal dining and outdoor entertaining.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The woman had been sitting in the dining room last night, a few tables away from him.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You may take them out and wine them and dine them, but that is all you may do.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The wine and dine is at Marshall Street.
Brown, Sarah Sarah Brown's Vegetarian London (1988)
He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs.
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
I am hoping that my new married lovers will wine and dine me, as well as taking me to bed.