Dining utensils (7)

I believe the answer is:
cutlery
'dining utensils' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for cutlery that I've seen before include "Eating implements" , "Knives, forks, etc" , "Eating utensils" , "Knives, forks and spoons" , "Eating irons" .)