dining room

American  

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.

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dining room British  

noun

1. a room where meals are eaten

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Etymology

Origin of dining room

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

One restaurant has different licensing laws on either side of the dining room.

From Salon

We’d pick a new one each time I had a break from school and spread it out on the dining room table.

From Literature

Still holding his rag, he took me through the kitchen and dining room to the stairs and stopped.

From Literature

Guests settle into the main dining room, the bar or the softly lit “booth room,” an intimate space lined with two-seater booths.

From Salon

Guests enter past rows of hanging Peking ducks and through velvet ropes into a dark, buzzing dining room.

From Salon