to dine

Examples

• All

• I meant to ask you if you'd come to dine with me next week at my club.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Perhaps the lady said you could dine with me tonight.

• And then we shall dine together, you and I, once more.

• In fifteen minutes, I can teach you everything you need to know to dine with the Queen.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Upstairs in a private dining room, Mr. Reindeer is dining with twelve guests in formal evening attire.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Washington D.C. restaurant terrace - Day: Marshal and Shaffer dine with Reynolds at a restaurant overlooking the Potomac.

  Fiction book (1998)

• College students are found to dine out more often than their parents (Wu-Tso, Yeh, Tarn, 1995).

  Academic text (2008)

• The Filipino Association of Chicago, Inc. dined and danced at the Morrison Hotel and turned a $325.00 profit.

  Academic text (1990)

• And they're going to be dining with this traveller Abu al Hassan, who has reputedly travelled all the way to China.

• Tonight, we will dine at the new Italian restaurant to celebrate her birthday.

Synonyms

W

to wine and dine

vsto dine

10 4.3

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

is a simpler, less lavish way to host a meal

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 Lavish

to banquet

• Formal

1 4.5

to entertain

226 2.0

to dine

• Formal

26 2.3

to invite to dinner

3 1.2

to treat

347 1.7

Surface Forms

Etymology