dining-room
dining-room — noun
1. a separate room inside a home, restaurant, or other building, furnished with a t
a separate room inside a home, restaurant, or other building, furnished with a table and chairs, where people sit together to eat meals
Linh's family gathers in the dining room every evening for a home-cooked meal.
prepositional phrase: in the dining room
The renovation team turned the dark hallway into a bright dining room.
used as object: into a dining room
Before the guests arrived, Élise set the dining room table with plates and glasses.
The apartment has a small dining room with space for a table and four chairs.
Ramón carried the dirty plates from the dining room to the kitchen after dinner.
- dining area
less formal; often refers to a part of a larger room rather than a separate room
- eat-in kitchen
a kitchen large enough to also contain a table for eating, not a separate dining room
- dining hall
a large room used for eating in institutions such as schools, dormitories, or hotels
文法句型
the dining room
in the dining room
用法筆記
The word is most often written as the open compound dining room (two words). The hyphenated form dining-room also appears, primarily in British English. It is a countable noun that typically takes the definite article when referring to a specific room.