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Webster 1828 Edition


Dining-room

DINING-ROOM

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Noun.
A room for a family or for company to dine in; a room for entertainments.

Definition 2024


dining-room

dining-room

See also: dining room

English

Noun

dining-room (plural dining-rooms)

  1. Alternative spelling of dining room
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
      The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; [] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.