fine
/faɪn/ noun C2- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law. · The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
- A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined (similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it). · Near-synonym: (Oxford University slang) sconce· Fine if you've…
Plural fines
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Toto was a fine curiosity to all the people, for they had never seen a dog before.
“I have heard much of your master’s fine person,” said Mrs.
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.
Other matches
- fine Of superior quality. A1
- fine Fine champagne B1
- fine To make finer, purer, or cleaner B2
- fine Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way. B2
- fine To issue a fine as punishment to C2
- fine A final agreement concerning lands or rents bet... C2
- fine The end of a musical composition. C2
- fine Expression of C2
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