dining room

American  

noun

• dining rooms
  plural

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.

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dining room British  

noun

1. a room where meals are eaten

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dining rooms
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dining room

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dining room

The main dining room resembled a luxury ocean liner, with floor-to-ceiling windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Jordan’s mural utilizes the flush mount dome in the center of the dining room ceiling as an Art Deco-inspired star motif, with painted white points extending from it for emphasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In an instant I was back in my childhood dining room, only now seeing it from my old man’s perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The two were working full-time jobs while talking about their literary dreams over the dining room table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

There were so many now for every meal that we had to set the chairs diagonally around the dining room table.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom