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dinner-table

dinner-table is the archaic form of dinner table.

Meaning of dinner table

Noun

dinner table (plural dinner tables)

  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) 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.

Forms of dinner-table

pluraldinner-tables

Questions about dinner-table

What is dinner-table the archaic form of?
Dinner-table is the archaic form of dinner table.

Words near dinner-table in the dictionary

  1. dinner-jackets
  2. dinner-lady arm
  3. dinner-lady arms
  4. dinner-parties
  5. dinner-party
  6. dinner-table
  7. dinner-tables
  8. dinner-time
  9. dinner-times
  10. dinnerbone
  11. dinnerboned

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