wine and dine

1. 1.

   eat sumptuously

   “we wined and dined in Paris”

   Broaderfeast
2. 2.

   provide with food and drink, usually lavishly

   Broaderhost

Questions about wine and dine

What does wine and dine mean?

wine and dine means "eat sumptuously". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is wine and dine a common word?

wine and dine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.