dine
verbosustantivocorriente en diálogos
- //daɪn//
To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
verbo
- 1
To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- 2
To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.
I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.
- 3
obsoletoTo dine upon; to have to eat.
Etimología
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 (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.
sustantivo
- 1
obsoletoDinnertime.
Formas
- pasado
- dined
- participio
- dined
- gerundio
- dining
- 3.ª persona del singular
- dines