dining

dining
    n 1: the act of eating dinner
    

Dining \Din"ing\, n. & a.
   from {Dine}, a.
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   Note: Used either adjectively or as the first part of a
         compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room,
         dining table, etc.
         [1913 Webster] dining-hall
         dininghall
    

Dine \Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr.
   an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to
   fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and
   cf. {Dinner}, {D?jeuner}.]
   To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
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         Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
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   {To dine with Duke Humphrey}, to go without dinner; -- a
      phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from
      the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner
      hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of
      Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
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79 Moby Thesaurus words for "dining":
      appetite, cannibal, cannibalism, cannibalistic, carnivorism,
      carnivority, carnivorous, carnivorousness, chewing, commensal,
      consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment,
      dietetic, dieting, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding,
      flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, gluttony,
      gobbling, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating,
      grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorous, herbivorousness,
      hunger, ingestion, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian,
      licking, man-eating, manducation, mastication, meat-eating, mensal,
      messing, munching, nibbling, nourishing, nutrition, nutritious,
      omnivorism, omnivorous, omnivorousness, omophagous, omophagy,
      pantophagous, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, phytivorous,
      phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious,
      preprandial, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, tasting,
      vegetable-eating, vegetarian, vegetarianism, wolfing