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Definitions for Dining

[1] to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
[2] to take any meal.
[3] to entertain at dinner.
[4] Scot. dinner.
[5] dine out , to take a meal, especially the principal or more formal meal of the day, away from home, as in a hotel or restaurant: They dine out at least once a week.
[6] (intr) to eat dinner
[7] (intr; often foll by on, off, or upon) to make one's meal (of) the guests dined upon roast beef
[8] (tr) informal to entertain to dinner (esp in the phrase wine and dine someone )

Words related to Dining

dinefeast, consume, lunch, banquet, sup, breakfast, supper

Words nearby Dining

dinedinar, dinarchy, dinard, dinaric, dinaric alps, dine, dine out, dine out on, diner, diner-out, dinergate

Origin of Dining

e1250–1300; Middle English dinen < Anglo-French, Old French di(s)ner < Vulgar Latin *disjējūnāre to break one's fast, equivalent to Latin dis- dis-1 + Late Latin jējūnāre to fast; see jejune

Words that may be confused with Dining

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, dinedeign, dine

Other words from Dining

pre·dine , verb (used without object), pre·dined, pre·din·ing.

Word origin for Dining

eC13: from Old French disner, contracted from Vulgar Latin disjējūnāre (unattested) to cease fasting, from dis- not + Late Latin jējūnāre to fast; see jejune

Synonyms for Dining

consume, eat out, feast, lunch, banquet, breakfast, sup, do lunch, fall to, feed on, supper