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dine¹

  • /daɪn/

Sounds like digne (obsolete) · Rhymes with -aɪn

Where it 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.

verb dines · dining · dined

  1. intransitive To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. transitive To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. 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.
  3. obsolete, transitive To dine upon; to have to eat.

Similar: dinner

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Dinnertime.

Dine²

Where it comes from

* As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Dine (see Vanduyne).

* As an English surname, from digne, from Old French digne (“proud, dignified”), from Latin dignus.

* As a French surname, shortened from Claudine.

proper noun Dines

  1. A surname.

Dine³

noun

  1. alternative, plural, plural only Alternative form of Diné

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Diné

Dine⁴

proper noun

  1. A barangay of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sup, diner, supper, dinnertime, dinner, meal, luncheon, lunch, banquet, feast, eating, eat, dean, religion, cleric, debt

verb

Similar: dinner

Translations

Every language

verb to eat; to eat dinner or supper

Españolcenar
हिन्दीजीमना jīmnā
Portuguêsjantar, cear
Françaisdîner
Deutschspeisen
Italianocenare
Românăcina, lua cina
Русскийу́жинать úžinatʹ, поу́жинать poúžinatʹ
Tiếng Việthàng
العربيةليتعشى, لاجل العشاء
עבריתאכל akhál, סעד saád

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@misc{dine_2026,
  title = {dine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}