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dining

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)//

Eating dinner as a social function.

noun

  1. 1

    Eating dinner as a social function.

    For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]

  2. 2

    Entertaining someone to dinner.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of dinepresent participle and gerund of dine

Forms

plural
dinings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).