DINING TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dining table mean? 

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

1. a table at which meals are served

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINING TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A table at which meals are served

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

board; dining table

Context example:

a feast was spread upon the board

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

table (a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dining table"):

dining-room table (dining-room furniture consisting of a table on which meals can be served)

dinner table (the dining table where dinner is served and eaten)

high table (a dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons)

refectory table (a long narrow dining table supported by a stretcher between two trestles)

triclinium (a dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome)

 Context examples 

I never did in my days behold anything like Mowcher as she stood upon the dining table, intensely enjoying this refreshment, rubbing busily at Steerforth's head, and winking at me over it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire—making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)