Dine vs Celebrate - What's the difference?
dine | celebrate | Related terms |
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
To extol or honour in a solemn manner.
To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep.
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, chapter=20 To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
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To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites.
In intransitive terms the difference between dine and celebrate
is that dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper while celebrate is to engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.dine
English
Verb
(din)- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.
Anagrams
* ----celebrate
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Verb
(celebrat)- to celebrate the name of the Most High
- to celebrate a birthday
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- I was promoted today at work—let’s celebrate !
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- to celebrate a marriage