dine

CEFRB1

/daɪn/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To eat a meal, especially dinner, often formally.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To dine upon; to have to eat.

Examples

  • Why don't you dine out with me for a change?

  • Let's dine out for a change.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

  2. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

More examples

In context

  • I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.

  • Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.