ROUND TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Round Table mean? 

• ROUND TABLE (noun)
  The noun ROUND TABLE has 2 senses:

1. a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views

2. (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights

  Familiarity information: ROUND TABLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUND TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

round-table conference; round table; roundtable

Context example:

a roundtable on the future of computing

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

conference; group discussion (a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

King Arthur's Round Table; Round Table

Instance hypernyms:

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

Domain category:

fable; legend (a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events)

 Context examples 

How pretty, to my eyes, did the china cups and bright teapot look, placed on the little round table near the fire!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My aunt leaned her elbow on the little round table that she usually kept beside her, and eyed him attentively.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the centre, on which several German books were scattered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There sat my friend at a little round table near the door of the garish Italian restaurant.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We found him hard at work with his inkstand and papers, refreshed by the sight of the flower-pot stand and the little round table in a corner of the small apartment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A camp-bed, a small wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things which met the eye.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A snug small room; a round table by a cheerful fire; an arm-chair high- backed and old-fashioned, wherein sat the neatest imaginable little elderly lady, in widow's cap, black silk gown, and snowy muslin apron; exactly like what I had fancied Mrs. Fairfax, only less stately and milder looking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I hope you won't think it selfish, Copperfield, if I mention that the broker carried off my little round table with the marble top, and Sophy's flower-pot and stand?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)