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DINING-ROOM TABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dining-room table mean?
• DINING-ROOM TABLE (noun)
The noun DINING-ROOM TABLE has 1 sense:
1. dining-room furniture consisting of a table on which meals can be served
Familiarity information: DINING-ROOM TABLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dining-room furniture consisting of a table on which meals can be served
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dining-room table" is a kind of...):
dining-room furniture (furniture intended for use in a dining room)
board; dining table (a table at which meals are served)
Holonyms ("dining-room table" is a part of...):
dining-room; dining room (a room used for dining)
Context examples
He left them shortly after ten o’clock, playing cards round the dining-room table, in excellent health and spirits.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They lay in a sort of orderly disorder on the great dining-room table.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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