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dine.

To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/daɪn/
  1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

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

    transitive
  3. To dine upon; to have to eat.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/daɪn/
  1. Dinnertime.

    obsolete · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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.

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