dining room
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
noun
Etymology
Origin of dining room
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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With the apology delivered, Trump walked into the State Dining Room with Netanyahu a while later to unveil a 20-point peace plan that Kushner also helped craft alongside Witkoff.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
"By the way, we have Marco Rubio. Marco, come on up here please," Trump said, beckoning him over to his side of the White House's State Dining Room.
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
The candlelit State Dining Room looked less like a seat of American power and more like the world’s most haunted drive-thru.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025
“Now their brutal ordeal is over, and they are free,” President Biden said in an address from the State Dining Room in the White House.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024
—I heard you Cry for the first time in that Dining Room, when the Midwife was above.—&c.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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