KITCHEN TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kitchen table mean? 

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

1. a table in the kitchen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KITCHEN TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A table in the kitchen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kitchen 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 

"Hannah left it on the kitchen table a minute, and the kittens got at it. I'm very sorry, Amy," added Beth, who was still a patroness of cats.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sold it was, however, and carried away in a van; except the bed, a few chairs, and the kitchen table.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Martin nodded, and went on arranging the books on a kitchen table which served in the room in place of a wash-stand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Before the one window, looking out on the tiny front porch, was the kitchen table that served as desk, library, and type-writing stand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)