Definitions for dines

dines dine

Spelling: [dahyn]
IPA: /daɪn/

Dines is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in dines (deins).

Definitions for dines

noun

  1. Scot. dinner.

Verb phrases

  1. dine out, to take a meal, especially the principal or more formal meal of the day, away from home, as in a hotel or restaurant:

verb (used with object)

  1. to entertain at dinner.

verb (used without object)

  1. to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
  2. to take any meal.

Origin of dines

1250-1300; Middle English dinen Anglo-French, Old French di(s)ner Vulgar Latin *disjējūnāre to break one's fast, equivalent to Latin dis- dis-1 + Late Latin

Examples for dines

We were all together in the living room, all together in the dining room.

The resources were what you might expect: dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.

This bungalow has two levels, a screening room, a dining room, many offices, an art department, and cutting rooms.

On the piano is a portrait of Lizzie, and replica skulls of the Bordens are displayed in the dining room.

Every man has his own fashion of dining, remarked the philosophical American.

Vettius' dining room is empty of its wooden tables and couches.

Where shall we set the tables, if we dance in the dining room?

Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.

As he was in dinner dress, Fanny asked him where he had been dining?

Houses sit together at their tables in dining halls under maroon banners emblazoned with their names.

Word Value for dines
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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