BREAKFAST TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breakfast table mean? 

• BREAKFAST TABLE (noun)
  The noun BREAKFAST TABLE has 1 sense:

1. a table where breakfast is eaten

  Familiarity information: BREAKFAST TABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREAKFAST TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A table where breakfast is eaten

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("breakfast table" is a kind of...):

table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)

 Context examples 

Sometimes they came upon him, and men faced him like heroes, or stampeded through barbed-wire fences to the delight of the commonwealth reading the account at the breakfast table.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They had just sat down to the breakfast table.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"It must be something extraordinary that could make Colonel Brandon leave my breakfast table so suddenly."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Miss Musgroves agreed to it; and having all kindly watched him as far up the hill as they could, they returned to the breakfast table.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I shut him out on the landing to wait for the answer, and went into my chambers again, in such a nervous state that I was fain to lay the letter down on my breakfast table, and familiarize myself with the outside of it a little, before I could resolve to break the seal.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You shall not get it out of me to-night, sir; you must wait till to-morrow; to leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"It is charming weather for THEM indeed," she continued, as she sat down to the breakfast table with a happy countenance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

On going down in the morning, I found my aunt musing so profoundly over the breakfast table, with her elbow on the tray, that the contents of the urn had overflowed the teapot and were laying the whole table-cloth under water, when my entrance put her meditations to flight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)