to dine

Examples

• All

• There will be four of us dining in the car this evening.

  Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

• You will dine with me tonight.

  Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)

• I shall dine in an hour.

  Red Sonja (1985)

• The nation that knows how to dine has learned the leading lesson of progress.

  Academic text (1997)

• "Will you be so good as to dine with me tonight in my chambers?

  Fiction book (1992)

• But the women insisted on dining side by side, so I sat alone, facing them.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Perhaps you'd like to dine at his house?

  J. Edgar (2011)

• You and your husband will dine with us, Madame Gromeko.

  Doctor Zhivago (1965)

• You'll dine with me and then my driver will transport you to the airport for the Boston shuttle departing at 2200 hours.

  Scent of a Woman (1992)

• Would you like to dine with us at the elegant restaurant downtown?

Synonyms

E

to eat

vsto dine

∞ 1.0

Put food or drink into your mouth, chew it and swallow it

refers specifically to the main evening meal in social or formal settings

S

to sup

vsto dine

• Archaic

1 9.9

To eat the evening meal, often in a quiet or old-fashioned way

focuses on meals at social or formal events rather than old fashioned tone

Antonyms

F

to fast

58 4.6

To not eat or drink for a time

Idioms

D

to dine below the mahogany

• Archaic

9.9

To eat a formal meal in a grand room with important people

D

to dine on ashes

• Archaic

9.9

To feel deep sadness and disappointment after a loss

Phrasal Verbs

W

to wine and dine

10 4.3

To treat someone to a fancy meal and drinks to impress them

D

to dine out

8 2.3

To eat a meal at a restaurant or someone else's home instead of your own home

D

to dine in

3 3.0

To eat a meal at home instead of going to a restaurant

How Formal

to dine

• Formal

100 1.3

to eat

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology