0 past simple and past participle of dine
1 to eat the main meal of the day, usually in the evening:
We dined by candlelight.
2 to eat a meal in a restaurant and then leave without paying:
They resided in private bedrooms, sometimes accompanied by family members, dined with the doctors in the plush hall, and enjoyed a rich recreational program.
We introduced ourselves and struck up a conversation as we dined.
She testified that she knew the defendant since they had dined at someone's home several months earlier.
I never open a paper without seeing that he has lunched here and dined there, and whenever he has a meal he makes a speech.
Certain people were wined and dined in various places before the vote.
Commissioners and their staff can be wined and dined by big business and given all sorts of freebies, but there is no record of that.
He had been wined and dined in this country.
Of course, these additional seals are not going to have dined entirely on salmon and sea trout.
