dining table

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noun
  1. a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.

Origin of dining table

1
First recorded in 1585–95

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How to use dining table in a sentence

  • It was a happy and reunited family which gathered around the Cordyce dining table that evening.

    The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • More than once Sir Hugh had mentioned the matter over the dining-table, expressing wonder as to Fetherston's real position.

    The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
  • The room across from Sara Lee's bedroom contained a small round dining table and chairs.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Then he handily served the very excellent dinner, and sat down at his solitary dining table.

    The Butterfly House | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman