dining room

noun

: a room used for eating meals

Examples of dining room in a Sentence

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Julio Miranda-Martin fills the bookshelf in his dining room with books and treasures. Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026 With Sydney now in charge of the main dining room, The Bear will continue to operate as an elite restaurant with sandwich spinoffs. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 June 2026 The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen. Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026 Your father strides into the dining room, harried, shiny black hair parted to one side, his fingers buttoning the cuffs of his starched white collared shirt. Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for dining room

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1576, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dining room was circa 1576

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“Dining room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dining%20room. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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dining room

noun
: a room used for eating meals
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