dine

D2I1N1E1
/daɪn/

verb

To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

Similar
dinner
OriginMiddle English dynen ← Old French disner ← Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre →
Less commonScrabble 5
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Meanings

dine1

verbdine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)

present singular third person dines · participle present dining · participle past dined · past dined

  1. intransitiveTo eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. transitiveTo give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

    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.

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

    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
  3. obsoletetransitiveTo dine upon; to have to eat.
noundine (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableDinnertime.

Dine2

proper nounDine (plural Dines)

plural Dines

  1. A surname.

Dine3

nounDine pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of Diné.
proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Diné.

Dine4

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

Synonyms & antonyms

Similar
dinner
Also see
dinnereatnavajosupper

Origin

dine · verb, noun

  1. Latinieiūnus
  2. Vulgar Latin*disiūnāre“to eat breakfast”
  3. Old Frenchdisner“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”
  4. Middle Englishdynen
  5. Englishdine

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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Dine · proper noun

  1. Latindignus
  2. Old Frenchdigne“proud, dignified”
  3. EnglishDine

* 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.

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Translations

Ancient Greek δεῖπνον αἱρέω, δόρπον αἱρέω
  • δεῖπνον αἱρέω (deîpnon hairéō)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • δόρπον αἱρέω (dórpon hairéō)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • δειπνέω (deipnéō)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Arabic ليتعشى, لاجل العشاء
  • ليتعشىto eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • لاجل العشاءto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Basque afaldu
  • afalduto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Bulgarian обядвам, вечерям
  • обядвам (objadvam)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • вечерям (večerjam)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Catalan sopar
  • soparto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Czech večeřet, povečeřet
  • večeřetto eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • povečeřetto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Danish spise
  • spiseto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Dutch dineren
  • dinerento eat; to eat dinner or supper
Esperanto vespermanĝi
  • vespermanĝito eat; to eat dinner or supper
Finnish illastaa, aterioida
  • illastaato eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • aterioidato eat; to eat dinner or supper
French dîner
  • dînerto eat; to eat dinner or supper
German speisen
  • speisento eat; to eat dinner or supper
Hebrew אכל, סעד
  • אכל (akhál)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • סעד (saád)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Hindi जीमना
  • जीमना (jīmnā)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Hungarian vacsorázik, megvacsorázik
  • vacsorázikto eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • megvacsorázikto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Italian cenare
  • cenareto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Latin cēnō
  • cēnōto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Polish jeść obiad, obiadować
  • jeść obiadto eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • obiadowaćto eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • jeść kolacjęto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Portuguese jantar, cear
  • jantarto eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • cearto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Romanian cina, lua cina
  • cinato eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • lua cinato eat; to eat dinner or supper
Russian у́жинать, поу́жинать
  • у́жинать (úžinatʹ)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • поу́жинать (poúžinatʹ)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Spanish cenar
  • cenarto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Thai ทานอาหาร
  • ทานอาหาร (taan aa hăan)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Turkish akşam yemeği yemek
  • akşam yemeği yemekto eat; to eat dinner or supper
Ukrainian вече́ряти, повече́ряти
  • вече́ряти (večérjaty)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • повече́ряти (povečérjaty)to eat; to eat dinner or supper
Vietnamese hàng
  • hàngto eat; to eat dinner or supper

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with dine

onlinelinedesignsignfinewinedefineminenineofflinepinecombinerefinedeclinedivineinlineKleinassignalignspineeinsteinsteinvinetyne
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Sounds the same

digne (obsolete)digne (obsolete)

Anagrams

enidiDENdeniEdinNiednide
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dine,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dine.

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