dinner table

American  

noun

1. dining table.

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Etymology

Origin of dinner table

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Both series also end around a dinner table.

From Los Angeles Times

Those films left viewers talking long after they departed the theater, ready to relive memories and quotes over the dinner table, at school and at parties.

From Salon

“Even a child could clear a dinner table,” said Goldberg, who is also chief scientist at Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Loyalty becomes harder when the family dinner table is emptying out,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We had a lot of political visitors at the dinner table,” the younger Mr. Rees-Mogg says.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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