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DINING-ROOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A room used for dining
Synonyms:
dining-room; dining room
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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:
He left them shortly after ten o’clock, playing cards round the dining-room table, in excellent health and spirits.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I heard them in my dining-room.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Yates is storming away in the dining-room.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Many rooms opened out of this, and we wandered from one to the other—the kitchens, the still-room, the morning-room, the dining-room, all filled with the same choking smell of dust and of mildew.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After attending Louisa through her business, and loitering about a little longer, they returned to the inn; and Anne, in passing afterwards quickly from her own chamber to their dining-room, had nearly run against the very same gentleman, as he came out of an adjoining apartment.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
From the dining-room, of which, though already seen, and always to be seen at five o'clock, the general could not forgo the pleasure of pacing out the length, for the more certain information of Miss Morland, as to what she neither doubted nor cared for, they proceeded by quick communication to the kitchen—the ancient kitchen of the convent, rich in the massy walls and smoke of former days, and in the stoves and hot closets of the present.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A sufficient interval having elapsed for the performers to resume their ordinary costume, they re-entered the dining-room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I called them, but got no answer, so I went to the dining-room to look for them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Yet the scene in the dining-room of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to recall his waning interest.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the very day that I saw him last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that something had happened.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
