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DINING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of eating dinner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dining" is a kind of...):
eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dining"):
Dutch treat (a dinner where each person pays for his own)
Derivation:
dine (have supper; eat dinner)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dine
Context examples:
They were soon dining in company together at Mr Musgrove's, for the little boy's state could no longer supply his aunt with a pretence for absenting herself; and this was but the beginning of other dinings and other meetings.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
This suggests you may have given up dining out in restaurants each week, for example, so you could accumulate enough money for a down payment on a property you want to buy or to pay for graduate school.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You ought to be very much obliged to Mrs. Grant for thinking of you, and to your aunt for letting you go, and you ought to look upon it as something extraordinary; for I hope you are aware that there is no real occasion for your going into company in this sort of way, or ever dining out at all; and it is what you must not depend upon ever being repeated.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
After sitting with them a quarter of an hour, she rose to take leave, and was then most agreeably surprised by General Tilney's asking her if she would do his daughter the honour of dining and spending the rest of the day with her.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
One day his imperial majesty, being informed of my way of living, desired that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness, as he was pleased to call it, of dining with me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Marianne, to the surprise of her sister, determined on dining with them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The process of getting into the dining room was a nightmare to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Dining once with the Coles—and having a ball talked of, which never took place.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When they got up on Saturday morning, there was no fire in the kitchen, no breakfast in the dining room, and no mother anywhere to be seen.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was only last week, when he was dining at Lord Elgin’s, that he apologized to the company for the shocking bad cooking.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
