dine

Meanings

Verb

• To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
• To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
• To dine upon; to have to eat.

Noun

• dinnertime

Origin

• 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, from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō, from Latin ieiūnus.