Thesaurus: dine

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1. v. i. To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
2. v. t. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
3. v. t. To dine upon; to have to eat.
4. v. have supper; eat dinner
5. v. give dinner to; host for dinner
6. To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's. 1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott. 2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine." Chaucer.
7. To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak.To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase commonin Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poorgentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb ofHumphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
8. v:100 v. have supper; eat dinner v. give dinner to; host for dinner