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 

I heard the dining-room door unclose; a gentleman came out; rising hastily, I stood face to face with him: it was Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The maids shrieked, and then went in a body to the dining-room; and I laid what flowers I had on my dear mother's breast.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We will join you in a few minutes in the dining-room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So long was he that Mr. Holder and I went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should return.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Following him down the passage I was suddenly interrupted by a small woman, who stepped out from what proved to be the dining-room door.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At one we dined, Mr. Mell and I, at the upper end of a long bare dining-room, full of deal tables, and smelling of fat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An hour later, when we entered the house, we found him stretched dead drunk upon the dining-room sofa.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As soon as they left the dining-room, Elinor enquired of her about it; and great was her surprise when she found that every circumstance related by Mrs. Jennings was perfectly true.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Weston's dining-room does not accommodate more than ten comfortably; and for my part, I would rather, under such circumstances, fall short by two than exceed by two.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When they repaired to the dining-room, Elizabeth eagerly watched to see whether Bingley would take the place, which, in all their former parties, had belonged to him, by her sister.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)