dining

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings)

1. 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 […]

2. Entertaining someone to dinner.

• dining car
• dining room
• dining table

dining

1. present participle of dine

• indign, niding