dining room

noun

: a room used for eating meals

Examples of dining room in a Sentence

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Previously, El Turco, a trendy Turkish restaurant based in Miami, served hot pink hummus out of the same dining room from 2022 to 2023. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 We weren’t allowed in the living room, or on the china in the dining room. Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025 One night during the tournament, the team, coaches and families piled into a separate dining room of a large, Italian restaurant. Paul Dickson, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025 Kaylee welcomed me into a cozy dining room, where her parents and three adult brothers had gathered for a weekly family dinner. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dining room

Word History

First Known Use

1601, in the meaning defined above

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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 21 Aug. 2025.

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dining room

noun
: a room used for eating meals
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