dining
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings)
- 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 […]
- 1869, The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)
- Entertaining someone to dinner.
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Verb
dining