Triclinium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals.
  • n. A room containing such a couch or couches; a dining room.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A couch for reclining at mealtimes, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
  • n. A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.
  • n. A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Among the Romans, the dining-room where guests were received, furnished with three couches, which occupied three sides of the dinner-table, the fourth side being left open for the free ingress and egress of servants.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides)
  • n. a dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    diningroom    dining table    board   
    Variant
    triclinia