dining room

noun

: a room used for eating meals

Examples of dining room in a Sentence

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Like most Australian and New Zealand lodges, meals are served at your leisure in the dining room. Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 22 May 2025 Think the pieces that your Grandma featured in her dining room years ago are no longer relevant today? Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 22 May 2025 My group ate dinner together in the large dining room. Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025 According to the View’s official metrics, the upstairs lounge takes forty-five minutes to complete a rotation, and the dining room takes an hour and a half. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for dining room

Word History

First Known Use

1601, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dining room was in 1601

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“Dining room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dining%20room. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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dining room

noun
: a room used for eating meals
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