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A dinette is a small place to eat, almost always in the kitchen or just beside it — a table and a few chairs, not a proper room with a door and a long table. American homes and apartment ads use this word a lot: if the kitchen has a corner for meals, that corner is the dinette. You also hear dinette set for the matching table-and-chairs group you buy together. It is ordinary, a bit old-fashioned, and very American; British speakers more often say kitchen table, breakfast bar, or eating area. It is not a restaurant and it is not fancy. Though actually, estate agents like it because it makes a tiny kitchen sound as if it has a room of its own.
小用餐區;廚房旁的小飯廳(家裡的角落,不是餐廳店)
組成From dine (to eat a meal) + French -ette (small). So: a small place for dining.
同家族的字
- dinethe verb 'eat a meal' that dinette is built from
- dinnersame dine- family; the meal itself
- kitchenettesame French -ette, 'a small one'
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dinettenoun/daɪˈnɛt/
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A small space within a dwelling, usually alongside a kitchen, used for informal dining; a dining alcove or nook.
- The condominium lacks a proper dining room, but has a cosy dinette.
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informalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA submarine's mess hall.
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Furniture for an indoor informal dining space, usually consisting of chairs and a small table.
- We purchased a new dinette yesterday.
- The dinette set in the corner was from the ’30s, chipped and discolored.
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obsoleteA preliminary dinner; luncheon.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。