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Beverly Hotel Dining
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dine

  [dahyn] verb, dined, din⋅ing, noun
Use Dining in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
2. to take any meal.
–verb (used with object)
3. to entertain at dinner.
–noun
4. Scot. dinner.
—Verb phrase
5. dine out, to take a meal, esp. the principal or more formal meal of the day, away from home, as in a hotel or restaurant: They dine out at least once a week.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME dinen < AF, OF di(s)ner < VL *disjējūnāre to break one's fast, equiv. to L dis- dis- 1 + LL jējūnāre to fast; see jejune
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Beverly Hotel Dining
 Luxury hotel and restaurant located in Beverly Hills, CA
 www.BeverlyHilton.com/Dining
Ruth's Chris Steak House
 The greatest steak you've ever had. Reserve your Beverly Hills table.
 www.ruthschris.com
dine   (dīn)   
v.   dined, din·ing, dines

v.   intr.
To have dinner.
v.   tr.
To give dinner to; entertain at dinner: wined and dined the visiting senators.

[Middle English dinen, from Old French diner, disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from *disiēiūnāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin iēiūnium, fast.]
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Dining

Din"ing\, n. & a. from Dine, a.

Note: Used either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room, dining table, etc.
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