dining

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English

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

Noun

dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings)

  1. Eating dinner as a social function.
    • 1869, The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)
      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. Entertaining someone to dinner.

Verb

dining

  1. present participle of dine

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