a room in which meals are eaten, as in a home or hotel, especially the room in which the major or more formal meals are eaten.
2.
Informal. the furniture usually used in a dining room and sometimes sold as a matching set, as a dining table, chairs, and sideboard; dining room suite:
a sale on dining rooms.
Origin
1595-1605
Examples from the web for dining room
Though the restaurant's large, ultra-modern dining room needs a crowd to get it going, the food is delicious.
Well surprise, the waves are lapping at the dining room door and their gourmet food looks a bit soggy.
My parents had a built-in bookcase that covered one end of the dining room.
It has its own art department of about two dozen that create tables, chairs and decorations for the dining room.
We sat in his small, dark dining room, a plate of jam-filled ginger cookies on the starched white tablecloth between us.
The plain wooden tables in the cavernous, heavy-beamed main dining room were filled with connoisseurs of the house specialty.
We double back to the hotel, where dinner in the intimate, candlelit dining room nicely ends this travel day.
Their sideboard's built right into the house and goes all the way across one end of the dining room.
Having to use the dining room table as a workbench doesn't help.
The lunch plates were cleared long ago, and the waitress gazes vacantly out over an otherwise empty dining room.