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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. Eating dinner as a social function
  2. Entertaining someone to dinner


Related terms


fr:dining io:dining ja:dining fi:dining te:dining vi:dining

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dining \Din"ing\, n. & a.
from Dine, a.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Used either adjectively or as the first part of a
compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room,
dining table, etc.
[1913 Webster] dining-hall
dininghall
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dining.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr.
an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to
fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and
cf. Dinner, D?jeuner.]
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
[1913 Webster]

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet dining
n : the act of eating dinner
Moby Dictionary
appetite , cannibal , cannibalism , cannibalistic , carnivorism ,
carnivority , carnivorous , carnivorousness , chewing , commensal ,
consumption , cropping , deglutition , devouring , devourment ,
dietetic , dieting , eating , epulation , feasting , feeding ,
flesh-eating , fruitarian , gastronomic , gluttonous , gluttony ,
gobbling , grain-eating , graminivorous , granivorous , grass-eating ,
grazing , herbivorism , herbivority , herbivorous , herbivorousness ,
hunger , ingestion , insect-eating , insectivorous , lactovegetarian ,
licking , man-eating , manducation , mastication , meat-eating , mensal ,
messing , munching , nibbling , nourishing , nutrition , nutritious ,
omnivorism , omnivorous , omnivorousness , omophagous , omophagy ,
pantophagous , pantophagy , pasture , pasturing , pecking , phytivorous ,
phytophagous , plant-eating , postprandial , prandial , predacious ,
preprandial , regalement , relishing , rumination , savoring , tasting ,
vegetable-eating , vegetarian , vegetarianism , wolfing


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