Definition of "dining car" [dining car]

• A railroad car in which meals are served. Also called diner. (noun)

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• "But not being afraid in the daylight of Mountainview or in the plush dining car of the Central Pacific train they'd initially boarded, were very different things to not being afraid in the middle of a pitch-black night in Utah."
• "The dining car was half filled with semicomatose clientele who could have been sitting in any bus station in America and looked very much at home."