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

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dining room

When Elise finally arrived in Ibiza later that night, the women gathered around the dining room table to hash out what happened in the voice-to-text debacle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Noma’s dining room reopens in Copenhagen on Aug. 5 under new leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Two days after her death, Phillips bought a chest freezer from AO.com, placing it in the dining room of the semi-detached home.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

The dining room boasts a sparkling chandelier and access to the exterior through chic French doors.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

It seemed to me that we had never had so many callers: the dining room was getting crowded.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom