dine

Meaning

Verb

1. To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
2. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
3. (obsolete) 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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/daɪn/

Etymology

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.