dining

Etymology

noun

  1. Eating dinner as a social function.
    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
  2. Entertaining someone to dinner.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dine

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