dine

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.

• IPA^(key): /daɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle 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.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 68:

     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.

   • 2019 November 12, Claire North [pseudonym; Catherine Webb], chapter 60, in The Pursuit of William Abbey, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 328:

     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.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.

• dinner

• dinner

dine (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Dinnertime.

• Iden, dein, Edin, iDEN, nide, enid, Enid, Nied, IndE, deni, Nide

• dinne

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ˈdinə/

dine

1. inside
   • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     I will doch go lose, was sie säge dinne.

     I just want to listen to what they're saying inside.

dine

1. (possessive) plural of din

dine

1. inflection of diner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• déni
• Inde

dine

1. inflection of dijn:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

dine

1. Alternative form of dynne

dine

1. Alternative form of digne

From Old Norse þínir.

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dine pl

1. plural of din

• “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse þínir.

• IPA^(key): /diːnə/

dine pl

1. plural of din

• “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

dine

1. locative singular of dina (“day”)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdine/ [ˈd̪iː.n̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: di‧ne

dine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)

1. Alternative form of dini

dīne

1. dative singular of din