Dine
Pronunciation
- IPA: /daɪn/
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Origin
From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiÅ«nÄre, from disieiÅ«nÄre ("to break the fast"), from Late Latin, from dis- + iÄ“iÅ«nÅ ("to fast"), from Latin ieiÅ«nus.
Full definition of dine
Verb
- (intransitive) to eat; to eat dinner or supper
- (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.What wol ye dine? — Chaucer.