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Dining vs Refectory - What's the difference?

dining | refectory |

As nouns the difference between dining and refectory

is that dining is eating dinner as a social function while refectory is a dining-hall especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.

As a verb dining

is present participle of lang=en.

dining

English

Noun

  • Eating dinner as a social function.
  • * 1869 , The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)
    • For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out
  • Entertaining someone to dinner.

    • Related terms

    * dining car * dining room * dining table

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    refectory

    English

    Noun

    (refectories)
  • A dining-hall especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.