dining room

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dining room

A room, as in a house or hotel, in which meals are eaten.

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dining room

a room where meals are eaten

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

din′ing room`

a room in which meals are eaten.

[1595–1605]

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Noun

dining room - a room used for dining

dining-room

buffet, sideboard, counter - a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

dining-hall - a large room at a college or university; used especially for dining

dining-room table - dining-room furniture consisting of a table on which meals can be served

dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"

mess hall, mess - a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"

triclinium - a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides)

Translations

غُرْفَةُ طَعَام

jídelna

spisesal

ruokasali

blagavaonica

ebédlőétkező

sala da pranzo stanza da pranzo cenacolo

ダイニングルーム

식당

jedilnica

matsal

ห้องอาหาร

yemek salonusalamanjeyemek odası

phòng ăn

餐厅

dining room

[ˈdaɪnɪŋˌrʊm] n → sala da pranzo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

dining room

→ غُرْفَةُ طَعَام jídelna spisesal Esszimmer τραπεζαρία comedor ruokasali salle à manger blagavaonica sala da pranzo ダイニングルーム 식당 eetkamer spisestue jadalnia sala de jantar столовая matsal ห้องอาหาร yemek salonu phòng ăn 餐厅

References in classic literature ?

No provision had been made in the new building for a kitchen and dining room; but we discovered that by digging out a large amount of earth from under the building we could make a partially lighted basement room that could be used for a kitchen and dining room.

Bedford--whom I have already spoken of as one of our trustees, and a devoted friend of the institution--was visiting the school, he was given a bedroom immediately over the dining room. Early in the morning he was awakened by a rather animated discussion between two boys in the dining room below.

I am glad that our students had to dig out the place for their kitchen and dining room. I am glad that our first boarding-place was in the dismal, ill-lighted, and damp basement.

When our old students return to Tuskegee now, as they often do, and go into our large, beautiful, well-ventilated, and well-lighted dining room, and see tempting, well-cooked food--largely grown by the students themselves--and see tables, neat tablecloths and napkins, and vases of flowers upon the tables, and hear singing birds, and note that each meal is served exactly upon the minute, with no disorder, and with almost no complaint coming from the hundreds that now fill our dining room, they, too, often say to me that they are glad that we started as we did, and built ourselves up year by year, by a slow and natural process of growth.

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He did not undress, but walked up and down with his regular tread over the resounding parquet of the dining room, where one lamp was burning, over the carpet of the dark drawing room, in which the light was reflected on the big new portrait of himself handing over the sofa, and across her boudoir, where two candles burned, lighting up the portraits of her parents and woman friends, and the pretty knick-knacks of her writing table, that he knew so well.

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The door opened, and from the dining room came the resounding strains of the polonaise:

Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.

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(You know, I'm surprised that he still roams around the commissioners' hallway and dining room. On the day we ordered an investigation, I already told somebody to tell the Smartmatic people not to go to the commissioners' hallway because they are not invited in that area.

Smartmatic exec gets dressing down from Comelec's Guanzon

Features a drawing room, sizeable sitting room and formal dining room. Also has a dining kitchen with utility room and upper sun lounge.

PROPERTY SPOTLIGHT; FALKIRK

The accommodation comprises a driveway, reception hall, side passage, lounge, separate dining room, large dining/kitchen, four double bedrooms, spacious bathroom with individual shower, established gardens front and back.

THREE OF A KIND FOUR BEDROOMS

This spacious detached house has two large bedrooms, two bathrooms, lounge, dining room, open plan kitchen/breakfast room, study/guest room and a conservatory.

TAKE4; Homes in the Vale of Glamorgan

Briefly, it has an enclosed porch, a hall with stairs, a lounge with feature fireplace, a dining room with feature fireplace, a lounge/dining room with feature fireplace and second staircase, a conservatory with access to the rear garden, a garden/family room, two kitchens - one with a wide range of appliances, a cloakroom with toilet and wash basin, two bathrooms - one fully tiled, a shower room and six bedrooms - five with built-in wardrobes.