Feast vs Dine - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between feast and dine

is that feast is to dwell upon (something) with delight while dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper.

As a noun feast

is a very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

feast

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) feest, feste, fest, from (etyl) feste, from (etyl) festa, plural of .

Noun

(en noun)

A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.

Something delightful

It was a feast for the eyes.

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

* Bible, Exodus xiii. 6

The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

* Bible, Luke ii. 41

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Synonyms

* banquet

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

From (etyl) feesten, festen, from (etyl) fester, from , from the noun. See above.

Verb

(en verb)

To partake in a , or large meal.

I feasted on turkey and dumplings.

To dwell upon (something) with delight.

* Shakespeare

With my love's picture then my eye doth feast .

To hold a in honor of (someone).

We feasted them after the victory.

To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.

* Bishop Joseph Hall

Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

Derived terms

* feaster * feast one’s eyes

Anagrams

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dine

English

Verb

(din)

to eat; to eat dinner or supper

(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.

(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.

What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.

Anagrams

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