dining room

noun

1. a room in which meals are eaten, as in a home or hotel, especially the room in which the major or more formal meals are eaten.
2. Informal. the furniture usually used in a dining room and sometimes sold as a matching set, as a dining table, chairs, and sideboard; dining room suite:

   a sale on dining rooms.

dining room

noun

1. a room where meals are eaten

Word History and Origins

Origin of dining room¹

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

Jurado waved at a mound of mementos around her dining room table gifted by volunteers and voters — scrapbooks, posters, artwork, photo collages — mixed in among thank-you cards that need to be mailed out.

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The music of jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava washes over the dining room as solicitous waiters recite the evening’s specials, their delivery unaffected by the thud of bombs falling on a neighborhood nearby.

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Eventually the discord in the kitchen spills out into the dining room and that is when everyone knows things have gone too far.

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He remained so unaffected by fame, he would eat his pregame dinner in the press box dining room in full view of anybody who wanted to sit down and chat.

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As a Cy Young Award-winning rookie pitcher in 1981, Valenzuela forever changed the makeup of the Dodgers’ fan base, but he never behaved as if he was a big shot in the media dining room.

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