dinner table

See also: dinner-table and dinnertable

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dinner table (plural dinner tables)

  1. A table on which dinner (or other food) is served and eaten, particularly in a home.
    Hypernyms: table < furniture
    1. A dining table.
      There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.
    2. (usually with the) The table at dinnertime conceived as a place; it often is the same table at which all meals are served, being at dinnertime the dinner table, at lunchtime the lunch table, and at breakfast time the breakfast table; it is usually either the kitchen table or the dining room table.
      In our house there's a rule that you don't bring your phone to the dinner table, although you're allowed to bring it to the breakfast table.

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