dinner plate
noun
a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
dinner plates
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pluralof dinner plate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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About 10 billion pounds of lettuce travels from farms to dinner plates every year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The company specializes in wafer-scale processors, or chips the size of dinner plates that are designed to train and power AI models.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Divers also found white dinner plates stamped with a Royal Navy blue crown emblem, as well as the embossed lettering "Nottingham" on the top of the stern.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
It includes appetizer and dinner plates, soup bowls, coffee cups and saucers.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
Then we had to get down to business, and it took us one whole hour to buy fancy dinner plates for Grandma.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
