[V] (formal) to eat dinner:
We dined with my parents at a restaurant in town.
PHRASALVERBS
dine on sth to have a particular type of food for dinner:
We dined on fresh local fish.
dine out to eat dinner in a restaurant or sb else's home
dine out on sth (informal) to tell other people about sth that has happened to you, in order to make them interested in you
IDIOMS see WINEv.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is dine a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dine is tagged as verb.
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