Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wine and dine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: wine and -dine
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To entertain or woo someone with a fine meal.

Transitive verb

verb

To eat lavishly.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife, you'd show me the world"
"In the TV world, getting smaller all the time / You're the kind of girl I'd like to wine and dine"
"So don't ask me to wine and dine ya / I'm from Brooklyn, you're from Regina"
"Five years ago, when he was wined and dined by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Xi was in charge of a China still in the ascendancy."
"As we wined and dined, as we walked together along the banks of the River Seine smoking our postprandial cigarettes, we talked of life and love—and women."

Usage

Inflected Forms

wines and dines (present, singular) wining and dining (participle, present) wined and dined (participle, past) wined and dined (past)

Questions

What does wine and dine mean?: To entertain or woo someone with a fine meal.

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