dining
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- noun
- /ˈdaɪnɪŋ/
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- They enjoyed a formal dining experience at the elegant restaurant downtown.
- a dining room
- a dining table
- a dining hall
And so, so it's like a sit down meal dining experience.
- And so, so it's like a sit down meal dining experience.
- This was a candlelit, very nice alfresco dining restaurant.
- And it used to accept like the E currency that our dining, like meal plans had.
- And I guess MSNBC's in room dining menu.
- So hotel, check in, hotel check in, dinners, dining, dining.
Examples
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We met each week in a different house, sitting around the dining room table with our work.
Academic text (1992) -
Indoors, the architecture hadn't changed much, so the several dining rooms were small and intimate.
Fiction book (1990) -
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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And earlier that day he was seen in the hotel dining room with a woman.
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Where is the dining room?
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"You better call down and make sure the dining room is ready for them.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm going to the dining room.
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We have to be out of the dining room by 6:30.
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This is our first proper big dinner in the dining room, in our blooming dining room.
Synonyms
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A time when people eat, for example breakfast or dinner
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A formal meal in the evening where people meet for social or business reasons
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Putting food into your mouth and swallowing
Compounds
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dining comes from the verb dine, which came from an old French word for the 'main meal' and is the same root as dinner. So, dining means the act of eating a meal, often with other people or in a more formal setting.