dine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb have supper; eat dinner
    • We often dine with friends in this restaurant
  2. verb give dinner to; host for dinner
    • I'm wining and dining my friends

WordNet

Dine intransitive verb
Etymology
F. dîner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, Djeuner.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dined ; present participle & verbal noun Dining
Definitions
  1. To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
    Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak.
Dine transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
    A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.
  2. To dine upon; to have to eat. Obs. "What will ye dine." Chaucer.

Webster 1913