dining table

noun

1. a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dining table¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

One local resident who lives about 20 minutes away from the facility told the BBC she was sitting at her daughter's dining table when she heard it.

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She recalls her team coming together immediately and turning her dining table from a breakfast setting to business.

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The "head" of the table is in the middle for the Windsor state banquet, with the King and president in the centre of a dining table that is 47m long.

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"Leaving you with some 'interesting' friends to entertain instead," he writes on the next page, with a photo of Lord Mandelson preparing a dining table with two women whose faces have been obscured.

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The “heroes” that inspired his giant dishes rest on the counter and the influence for “Under the Table” is his actual dining table.

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Related Words

• bar 
• bench 
• board 
• buffet 
• counter 
• desk 
• dinner table 
• stand