dine

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

Dinnertime.

Synonyms

eat

🍽️

ingest

have a meal

feed

take a meal

have

sup

lunch

eat dinner

have dinner

meal

regale

supper

swallow

take in

break bread

eat lunch

Navaho

have dinner/lunch

absorb

chew

consume

drink

🥤

eat a meal

eat out

eat up

fare

guzzle

Translations

cenar

dîner

cenare

jantar

desinare

pranzare

speisen

γευματίζω

dineren

déjeuner

eten

🍽️

restaurer

souper

epulor

sopar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/daɪn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dynen

In summary

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.