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to go out for dinner

to go out for dinner

16 1.1
Leave home to eat dinner at a restaurant
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : salir a cenar
  • Would you like to go out for dinner?
  • go out for dinner tonight
  • want to go out for dinner
  • went out for dinner one night

And and so she says, would you like to go out for dinner?

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Examples

Synonyms

to eat out
vsto go out for dinner
35 1.3

To have a meal at a restaurant instead of at home

is specifically about leaving home to have the evening meal at a restaurant
to dine out
vsto go out for dinner
8 2.3

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

is limited to leaving home to have the evening meal at a restaurant

Antonyms

to dine in
3 3.0

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

How Formal

to go out for dinner
16 1.1
to eat out
35 1.3
to grab a bite
  • Informal
30 2.9

Surface Forms

go out for dinner infinitive
went out for dinner past
gone out for dinner past participle
going out for dinner present participle
goes out for dinner third person singular

Morphology

go + out + for + dinner

The meaning 'to leave one's home to eat dinner' is directly derivable from combining 'go' (move), 'out' (away from home), 'for' (indicating purpose) and 'dinner' (the evening meal). This is a regular compositional pattern (go out + for [meal]) that is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English grammar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.

Etymology

The phrase go out for dinner shows a simple picture: leave your home (go out) to eat the evening meal (dinner) at a restaurant or similar place, so it means 'to leave home and eat dinner somewhere else'.