DINNER TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dinner table mean? 

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

1. the dining table where dinner is served and eaten

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINNER TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dining table where dinner is served and eaten

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

board; dining table (a table at which meals are served)

Meronyms (parts of "dinner table"):

leaf (hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door))

 Context examples 

After that, she cleared the dinner table; after that, came in with another cap on, and her work-box, and the yard-measure, and the bit of wax-candle, all just the same as ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I haven't strength of mind enough to clear up now, so we will sober ourselves with a funeral, said Jo, as they rose, and Miss Crocker made ready to go, being eager to tell the new story at another friend's dinner table.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When a most amiable person, with a highly polished bald head, asked me across the dinner table, if that were the first occasion of my seeing the grounds, I could have done anything to him that was savage and revengeful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)