| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  d n |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: dined, din·ing, dines
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To have dinner. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To give dinner to; entertain at dinner: wined and dined the visiting senators. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English dinen, from Old French diner, disner, from Vulgar Latin *disi n re, from *disi inre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin iinium, fast.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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