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# dine

«dine» in Mova's school dictionary: **To eat dinner, the main meal of the day** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (dine, dines, dined, dining)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To eat dinner, the main meal of the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#m1)

2) To dine out: to eat in a restaurant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#m2)

3) To dine on something: to eat it for a meal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: dining room, dining table, dine out. In stories and formal writing: «They dined with the king». In maths problems: people dine at a restaurant and split the bill.

### examples

- We dined at a lovely restaurant by the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x1)
- The family dines together every evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x2)
- Let's dine out for Grandma's birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x3)
- The knights dined on roast chicken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x4)
- Set the dining table for six. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x5)
- Four friends dined and shared the bill equally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x6)
- Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/#x7)

### note

Formal; everyday is «have dinner» or «eat». Do not confuse with «diner» (a person eating or a small US restaurant) and «dinner» (the meal, double n).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.