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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His most recent L.A. show, “The Door Is Always Open” in 2013, turned the Skirball Cultural Center into a living and dining room inspired by his childhood home.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
I find him at the dining room table, too upset to field my request for the instruction booklet.
From Slate • May 10, 2026
She was due to receive her second vaccination but two attempts to do so in the building's dining room earlier that day had not gone ahead.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
Inspired, Nones began photographing RiverSpring workers, from nurses to housekeepers, inviting them into a makeshift studio in the dining room.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
“The iPad is on the dining room table. Feel free. But could you take CPU with you? Opening boxes makes her thirsty.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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