dinner table

American  

noun

1. dining table.

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Etymology

Origin of dinner table

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

My American Legion Medal has served my dinner table well.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Mom had let him bring Thor to the dinner table, so Bat turned his mouth up in a smile and added, “Will you forgive me?”

From Literature

Jonas says this has made Neo a “controversial topic at the dinner table” in Westchester County, where he lives with his wife and three sons, the oldest of whom is about to start driving.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was a child of physicians, growing up discussing medical cases around the dinner table, so this was all new to me.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both series also end around a dinner table.

From Los Angeles Times

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