DINING ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dining room mean? 

• DINING ROOM (noun)
  The noun DINING ROOM has 1 sense:

1. a room used for dining

  Familiarity information: DINING ROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINING ROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room used for dining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dining-room; dining room

Hypernyms ("dining room" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Meronyms (parts of "dining room"):

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dining room"):

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

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

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

Holonyms ("dining room" is a part of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

 Context examples 

When they got up on Saturday morning, there was no fire in the kitchen, no breakfast in the dining room, and no mother anywhere to be seen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The process of getting into the dining room was a nightmare to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When they were seated in the dining room, Sir John observed with regret that they were only eight all together.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Such a happy procession as filed away into the little dining room!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mary, a matronly young blonde, was washing dishes in the little back room that served for kitchen and dining room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Elinor, pleased to have her governed for a moment by such a motive, though believing it hardly possible that she could sit out the dinner, said no more; and adjusting her dress for her as well as she could, while Marianne still remained on the bed, was ready to assist her into the dining room as soon as they were summoned to it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Will Demi lie still like a good boy, while Mamma runs down and gives poor Papa his tea?" asked Meg, as the hall door softly closed, and the well-known step went tip-toeing into the dining room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Quite flushed with excitement were their ruddy faces, as they swung in the wind, whispering to one another what they had seen, for some peeped in at the dining room windows where the feast was spread, some climbed up to nod and smile at the sisters as they dressed the bride, others waved a welcome to those who came and went on various errands in garden, porch, and hall, and all, from the rosiest full-blown flower to the palest baby bud, offered their tribute of beauty and fragrance to the gentle mistress who had loved and tended them so long.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refreshment.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)