DINE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dine out mean? 

• DINE OUT (verb)
  The verb DINE OUT has 1 sense:

1. eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home

  Familiarity information: DINE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

dine out; eat out

Hypernyms (to "dine out" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue dine out

 Context examples 

Does she dine out every where, as well as at my sister's?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Donwell and Randalls had received their invitation, and none had come for her father and herself; and Mrs. Weston's accounting for it with I suppose they will not take the liberty with you; they know you do not dine out, was not quite sufficient.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But there is, I believe, in many men, especially single men, such an inclination—such a passion for dining out—a dinner engagement is so high in the class of their pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties, that any thing gives way to it—and this must be the case with Mr. Elton; a most valuable, amiable, pleasing young man undoubtedly, and very much in love with Harriet; but still, he cannot refuse an invitation, he must dine out wherever he is asked.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The evening before this great event (for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December) had been spent by Harriet at Hartfield, and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold, that, but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by Mrs. Goddard, Emma could not have allowed her to leave the house.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)