dinner-table
dinner-table is the archaic form of dinner table.
Meaning of dinner table
Noun
dinner table (plural dinner tables)
- A dining table.
- There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.
- 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
| plural | dinner-tables |
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Questions about dinner-table
- What is dinner-table the archaic form of?
- Dinner-table is the archaic form of dinner table.
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