Words / B2

DYN-ing/ˈdaɪnɪŋ/

Dining is the activity of eating a meal, especially a formal one: a dining hall; fine dining; dining room. Dine is the verb; dinner is the meal. Map the dining hall on the site plan, then the capacity. Mix-up: dining vs dinning (from din); dying; do not write dining for a canteen queue with no meal space in the source unless the plan labels it.

Meaning

The activity of eating a meal, especially a formal one (often in dining hall / fine dining).

Examples

• “Map the dining hall on the site plan, then the capacity, not a restaurant slogan.”
• “Fine dining featured in the tourism table, which is the high-cost meal sense — still quote the £ spend.”

Good to know

dining hall / room / table; fine dining; dining out. Verb: dine. Meal: dinner. Trap: dinning / dying. Geography, DT, and accounts. Eating a meal, especially formally — map the room or quote the spend.

Near in meaning

eating, meal, banquet

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