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From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (to dine, eat the main meal of the day), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (to eat breakfast), from *disieiūnāre (to break the fast), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (to fast), from Latin ieiūnus.

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dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)

  1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. (transitive) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.

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dine (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Dinnertime.

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Alemannic German

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dine

  1. inside
    • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:
      I will doch go lose, was sie säge dinne.
      I just want to listen to what they're saying inside.

Danish

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dine

  1. (possessive) plural of din

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French

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dine

  1. inflection of diner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Middle Dutch

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dine

  1. inflection of dijn:
    1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

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dine

  1. Alternative form of dynne

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dine

  1. Alternative form of digne

Norwegian Bokmål

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From Old Norse þínir.

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dine pl

  1. plural of din

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Old Norse þínir.

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dine pl

  1. plural of din

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dine

  1. locative singular of dina (day)

Tagalog

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dine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)

  1. Alternative form of dini

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Turkish

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dīne

  1. dative singular of din