DINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dining mean? 

• DINING (noun)
  The noun DINING has 1 sense:

1. the act of eating dinner

  Familiarity information: DINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of eating dinner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dining" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dining"):

Dutch treat (a dinner where each person pays for his own)

Derivation:

dine (have supper; eat dinner)

 Context examples 

I had the pleasure of hearing it at Mr. Palmer's, where I have been dining.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In the dining saloon, at luncheon, he found himself in the place of honor, at the captain's right; and he was not long in discovering that he was the great man on board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He thought it very well done of Mr. Knightley to invite them—very kind and sensible—much cleverer than dining out.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was but last week that I had the honour of dining with my friend, Lord St. Vincent, and I took occasion to mention you to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such a happy procession as filed away into the little dining room!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At last, shortly after nine o’clock, there arrived a messenger with a note: Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She got up, and ran out of the room; and returned no more, till she heard them passing through the hall to the dining parlour.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I never did in my days behold anything like Mowcher as she stood upon the dining table, intensely enjoying this refreshment, rubbing busily at Steerforth's head, and winking at me over it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By filming a great tit having a terrible dining experience with conspicuous prey, then showing it on a television to other tits before tracking their meal selection, researchers found that birds acquired a better idea of which prey to avoid: those that stand out.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

For nearly three months, I had never been called to Mrs. Reed's presence; restricted so long to the nursery, the breakfast, dining, and drawing-rooms were become for me awful regions, on which it dismayed me to intrude.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)