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place card

place card noun: a card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.

place card: a card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit
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Noun

place card (plural place cards)

  1. A card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.
    • Rachel was sitting at the table writing place cards with her italic fountain pen.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Forms of place card

pluralplace cards

Questions about place card

What does place card mean?
Place card means a card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.
What part of speech is place card?
Place card is a noun.
What is the plural of place card?
The plural of place card is place cards.

Words near place card in the dictionary

  1. placcats
  2. placcy
  3. place
  4. place an order
  5. place blindness
  6. place card
  7. place cards
  8. place cell
  9. place cells
  10. place clause
  11. place clauses

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