dining room
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈdaɪnɪŋ ruːm/
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comedor
- Every evening, my family gathers around the table in the dining room to enjoy our meals together.
- a dining room table
- decorate the dining room
- a hotel dining room
The meeting is at a private dining room downstairs, right?
- The meeting is at a private dining room downstairs, right?
- And this, this poor woman had to sit in my dining room for three days.
- Create sacred spaces at home, the kitchen, the dining room, and reclaim them for conversation.
- You should have a candle in the dining room.
- So let me talk you through our future little dining room plan.
- And afterwards, we're all sitting in the dining room.
- So I kind of took a stab at your dining room.
- Or you aren't saying straight out I want to paint the dining room red.
Examples
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This is the dining room.
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But we spend a lot of our day in the dining room because we're having dinner, then we're playing games.
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And this, this poor woman had to sit in my dining room for three days.
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And this is our dining room area.
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Uh, you could see a large, private dining room at the back.
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Are you sure this thing's gonna fit in the new dining room?
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We met each week in a different house, sitting around the dining room table with our work.
Academic text (1992) -
I have a great room that consists of a kitchen, a dining room, and a living room all in one big space.
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And here we will keep a formal dining room, you know, for Christmas or Thanksgiving.
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Create sacred spaces at home, the kitchen, the dining room, and reclaim them for conversation.
Synonyms
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3.4
A large room where people in the military eat
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2.1
A large room in a college where many students eat meals
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1.0
A room in a school or workplace where people can buy and eat lunch
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1.3
A space in a home or restaurant for eating meals
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6.2
A small eating area next to a kitchen for casual meals
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3.0
A small space near the kitchen with a table or seat where people eat breakfast
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8.9
A large room where people in a college or monastery eat together
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1.0
A small space near the kitchen for eating breakfast
A room where people in the military eat meals together
A part of a train where people eat meals while traveling
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room where people eat meals' is directly and predictably built from 'dining' (the act of eating a meal) + 'room' (an indoor space). This noun-noun compound follows a common compositional pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The name dining room comes from the simple idea of dining, meaning 'to eat meals', in a room set aside for that purpose. In older houses people used a special room away from the kitchen for dinner, so dining room now means the room where people eat together.