dine has definitions from the field of food
1
[ verb ] (food) have supper; eat dinner

Synonyms

sup

Examples

"We often dine with friends in this restaurant"

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

But the brigadier dines on the birds with relish .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

It seemed to her , as it seemed each night , that the gloom drew itself in and became densest at the table 's empty chairs , giving her the frequent illusion that she dined with shadows .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Sometime on Saturday evening , August 22nd , while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria_dell_'Orso , in Rome , you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks_County , Pennsylvania , and let yourselves into the premises .

2
[ verb ] (food) give dinner to; host for dinner

Synonyms

sup

Examples

"I'm wining and dining my friends"

Related terms

feed dinner dining_car

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