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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dine
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dinner/dining companion (=someone you have dinner with)
▪ We saw him in the restaurant with a very attractive dinner companion.
bathroom/dining room/meeting room etc
▪ the doctor’s waiting room
dined alfresco
▪ We dined alfresco, on a balcony overlooking the sea.
dining car
dining room
dining table
the kitchen/dining/bedroom/bathroom area
▪ The kitchen area is rather small.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ I dined off bread and cheese and this excellent claret.
▪ There are a lot of animals that would like to dine off nome, Masklin had said.
out
▪ For years I dined out on these stories.
▪ Many people would like to have the same kind of choice when dining out.
▪ Look round the lively and colourful capital of Argostoli and dine out in one of its many tavernas.
▪ She attended college in Colorado, and began cooking because it was cheaper than dining out.
▪ Ven had invited her to dine out with him that night and she had accepted.
▪ They dine out, or they order in.
▪ Forget about fibre while dining out.
▪ So if you want delicious, healthy options when you dine out, stroke your favorite chef.
together
▪ Once a week at least Alec Reid and I dined together.
▪ At Westminster, they dined together.
▪ The two dined together last night after a weekend with her parents.
■ NOUN
couple
▪ The couple were wined and dined before retiring to a plush suite for Valentine's night.
▪ There are only four couples dining at this hour.
▪ Well-groomed young couples dine in busy restaurants.
▪ A couple who dined the other Friday report both food and ambience as appealing as ever.
evening
▪ The same evening Davidson dined with Bridgeman.
▪ It is used mainly in the evening by guests dining in the restaurant.
▪ It all looks very attractive, particularly on a warm evening when you can dine outside.
▪ However, business lunches may crop up from time to time - and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants.
▪ The previous evening he had dined with the Director-General.
▪ One evening she dined with him at, curiously it seems to us, the Midland Hotel.
▪ In the evening guests dine by candlelight in the terrace restaurant.
family
▪ But there have been grander times when dozens of guests from the Royal Family down would dine from their silver service.
▪ Spelling and his family dine at the White House.
▪ The area has plenty of tourist traffic but also is frequented by area families dining at nearby restaurants.
guest
▪ It is used mainly in the evening by guests dining in the restaurant.
▪ His house had a guest room, a dining room, a kitchen and an outdoor toilet.
▪ Adjacent to the hotel, guests may dine in the lively garden restaurant overlooking the river.
▪ All Félix's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments.
▪ Reached via 100 steps, there is a bar, lift and restaurant where guests can dine alfresco with breathtaking views.
▪ The restaurant overlooks the bay and in high season guests can dine on the terrace.
▪ In the evening guests dine by candlelight in the terrace restaurant.
kitchen
▪ A separate stair to the main bedroom on the first floor would divide the kitchen from the dining area.
▪ It is a simple divider between her kitchen and her dining room.
▪ No closets, cramped kitchen, obsolete dining room with a long gloomy table.
▪ The carrousel therefore contained the kitchen, dining, washing, and toilet facilities.
▪ A rear stairway circled a small elevator accessible to kitchen and cook's dining area, bedroom and bath.
night
▪ I first learnt of it when, dining one night in a London restaurant, I received an urgent summons from Harold.
▪ Although it was very late, Otto whisked us off to dine that night at a restaurant some way along the coast.
▪ My lover and I dined last night in Cambridge at the Master's Lodge of his college.
▪ The two dined together last night after a weekend with her parents.
restaurant
▪ Its àlacarte restaurant offers dining by a delightful canal.
▪ So many restaurants to dine at.
▪ He went to his usual restaurant intending to dine without paying.
▪ Reached via 100 steps, there is a bar, lift and restaurant where guests can dine alfresco with breathtaking views.
room
▪ The carved chestnut central staircase is a showpiece, and the mahogany paneling gleams in the spacious living room and dining room.
▪ Ray Sands walked through the living room and dining room, turning on the lamps.
▪ I passed quickly through the foyer, angled left through the large cathedral-ceilinged living room, entered the dining room.
▪ His house had a guest room, a dining room, a kitchen and an outdoor toilet.
▪ It was a two-story white house, two bedrooms upstairs, living room, dining room, and kitchen.
▪ In two hours, the room has changed from living room to dining room to bedroom.
▪ The living room, dining room and kitchen are toasty, but the three bedrooms are 5 to 6 degrees cooler.
table
▪ Legos become interesting all over again if they are moved to a sunny table in the dining room.
▪ The table in the dining room is extended to its limits.
wine
▪ The winner will receive two free wine and dine tickets on the preserved railway of his/her choice.
▪ Cinderellas Rockerfellas Lush decor. Wine, dine and disco dance.
▪ Here in sophisticated surroundings you can wine, dine and dance, or simply enjoy a pleasant lunch or good dinner.
▪ Rest it on your conscience if you wine and dine your lover and claim client entertainment.
■ VERB
invite
▪ Ven had invited her to dine out with him that night and she had accepted.
▪ The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C's residence.
like
▪ There are a lot of animals that would like to dine off nome, Masklin had said.
▪ He liked to dine promptly at eight.
▪ He wasn't vegetarian, but he liked saving money when dining at home.
live
▪ The carved chestnut central staircase is a showpiece, and the mahogany paneling gleams in the spacious living room and dining room.
▪ Ray Sands walked through the living room and dining room, turning on the lamps.
▪ The woman lived in her dining room in an enormous crib with hinged, slatted sides.
▪ It was a two-story white house, two bedrooms upstairs, living room, dining room, and kitchen.
▪ In two hours, the room has changed from living room to dining room to bedroom.
▪ The living room, dining room and kitchen are toasty, but the three bedrooms are 5 to 6 degrees cooler.
sit
▪ They sat down at the dining room table that had a history of Sunday and holiday family dinners.
▪ On a spring day in 1941, Margarett sat in the Ritz dining room.
▪ We sat there in the dining room.
▪ She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
walk
▪ Angelenos are constantly searching for the next great shopping / walking / dining area.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sleeping/dining/buffet car
▪ Even on long journeys early trains had no corridors, lavatories, dining cars or heating.
▪ Every seat in the dining car filled up and still people were coming.
▪ He kept getting up and going to the window to look down on his sleeping car.
▪ I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car, standing just behind Emil, Cathy and Oliver.
▪ In the warm yellow light of the dining car windows I caught a glimpse of a woman raising a wine glass.
▪ Luxury for first class travellers: a sleeping car attendant delivers hot water bottles on the London-to-Inverness Express, January 1935.
▪ The buffet car was up ahead; there was a young woman buying a drink and some sandwiches.
▪ The dining car had oak woodwork, potted palms and sumptuous meals.
wine and dine sb
▪ Companies spend millions wining and dining their clients.
▪ Did he tell you to plant this here while he wined and dined me?
▪ He wined and dined Princess Diana after supporting her favourite ballet school show.
▪ He knows they are only interested in exploiting the collective assets, wining and dining, and riding in official cars.
▪ He was well wined and dined by the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce last Friday.
▪ Rest it on your conscience if you wine and dine your lover and claim client entertainment.
▪ The winner will receive two free wine and dine tickets on the preserved railway of his/her choice.
▪ They will all be wined and dined in our private box.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dining alone this evening?
▪ Guests dined on sea bass and saffron potato mousseline.
▪ I have received an invitation to dine with the Mayor.
▪ It's a place where the famous can dine out and not be bothered.
▪ We dined at the Ritz.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adjacent to the hotel, guests may dine in the lively garden restaurant overlooking the river.
▪ The representatives of shire and suburb had arrived on the Monday evening, and had drunk and dined exceedingly well.
▪ You insisted I must wear this to dine, and I am certainly not going to change again now.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dine

Dine \Dine\, v. t.

  1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.

    A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] ``What will ye dine.''
    --Chaucer.

Dine

Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, D?jeuner.] To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.
--Shak.

To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dine

late 13c., from Old French disner (Modern French dîner) "to dine, eat, have a meal," originally "take the first meal of the day," from stem of Gallo-Roman *desjunare "to break one's fast," from Vulgar Latin *disjejunare, from dis- "undo" (see dis-) + Late Latin jejunare "to fast," from Latin iejunus "fasting, hungry" (see jejune).

Wiktionary
dine

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

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WordNet
dine

  1. v. have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant"

  2. give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends"

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Dine

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Dine (magazine)

Dine is an American lifestyle magazine owned by Superfluous Media LLC. From September 2015 the magazine is published annually by PPI Group. Sara Waxman is the editor-in-chief of the magazine and Adam Waxman is the executive editor. The magazine covers articles on food, wine, travel destinations, art and culture.

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Usage examples of "dine".

The mistress of the house was fond of ready-made phrases, and she adopted this one, about Julien, very pleased at having invited an academician to dine with them.

Commissioners--that is to say, Marshals Macdonald and Ney and the Duke of Vicenza had informed Marmont that they would dine with him as they passed through Essonne, and would acquaint him with all that had happened at Fontainebleau.

Not one of them was deceived in the young officer, but, being already acquainted with the adventure, they were all delighted to dine with the hero of the comedy, and treated the handsome officer exactly as if he had truly been a man, but I am bound to confess that the male guests offered the Frenchwoman homages more worthy of her sex.

The dining nook window faced west, and through it she could see that the lights of the admin complex were still ablaze.

She begged me to go into her sitting-room while she dressed, and we then went down and dined with the wretched secretary, who adored her, whom she did not love, and who must have borne small love to me, seeing how high I stood in her graces.

Goya elected to adorn the dining room of his house, the Quinta del Sordo.

Major Migel affectionately dubbed the Forest Hills trio, that they had entertained almost every delegate to the World Conference, keeping open house and lunching or dining as many of the foreign visitors as possible.

Ager shouted a command, and his own detachment of guards formed in front of the party and led the way down the Long Walk to the official dining room, a long space filled with the biggest table Ager had ever seen.

Seregil paced restlessly around the dining room as Alec wolfed down his sausage and tea.

On each wall was painted a fantasy mural of the sea, so that it appeared as if they were dining alfresco, on a calm ocean during a bright afternoon, surrounded by graceful sailboats.

Chavigni came to dine with me, she asked me if I had had any amorous adventures in Holland.

I asked him to dine with me, and without mentioning the name of Madame de la Saone he told his amorous adventures and numerous anecdotes about the pretty women of Berne.

I wished he had spent his gold on himself and left me poor, for it seemed to me I had need of nothing save the little I earned by my pen--I was content to live an anchorite and dine off a crust for the sake of the divine Muse I worshipped.

Soon after he took his leave, without asking me where I intended dining, or apologizing for not having accommodated me himself.

Fairly and Annette, dining on pancakes and juice, and Lars Aquavit, finishing a last cup of coffee.