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at table

at table prepositional phrase: eating a meal at a table, especially with others.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Eating a meal at a table, especially with others.
    • sitting at table with a servant
    • […] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head.1876, Lady Barker, The Kafir at Home, printed in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 23 (87?), page 221...
  2. Preparing and serving the table for a meal, usually formal.

Questions about at table

What does at table mean?
At table means eating a meal at a table, especially with others.
What part of speech is at table?
At table is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at table in the dictionary

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  2. at swords' points
  3. at symbol
  4. at symbols
  5. At Ta'if
  6. at table
  7. at ten and two
  8. at that
  9. at that time
  10. at the bank
  11. at the best

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