dinner table

noun — 2 senses

dinner table

noun

› A table on which dinner (or other food) is…

1

A dining table.

  • There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.
2

Usually, With the The table at dinnertime conceived as a place; it often is the same table at which all meals are served, being at dinnertime the dinner table, at lunchtime the lunch table, and at breakfast time the breakfast table; it is usually either the kitchen table or the dining room table.

  • In our house there's a rule that you don't bring your phone to the dinner table, although you're allowed to bring it to the breakfast table.
Related terms
at table, table manners

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