Definition of "dining room" [dining room]

• A room, as in a house or hotel, in which meals are eaten. (noun)

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• "He guided her through the kitchen door into the now-emptied dining room and to a table near the window, pulled a chair out for her with one hand, and placed her plate before her with the other."
• "Gold had set up the large wooden table in the dining room with eighteen chairs—including one specially modified for Pattie—and invited everyone to take a seat as Rachel brought in the matzo-ball soup."
• "Gold sat in the dining room of the home in Havana, Cuba, belonging to Arlene Rivera and the late da Vinci transporter chief."