dining-room table
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- noun
- /ˈdaɪnɪŋ ruːm ˈteɪbəl/
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mesa de comedor
- We gathered around the dining-room table to enjoy our family dinner together.
- sit around the dining-room table
And he handed me the script in his living room on a small dining room table.
- And he handed me the script in his living room on a small dining room table.
- I just went down to my dining room table, pulled out a couple of references and watched this paper write itself in three hours.
- But I currently have this sitting on my dining room table and I just flipping love it.
- We edited on my dining room table.
- Often they are written like one might talk to you at the dining room table at night.
- And he remembers, I guess, that they were had been sitting out on the dining room table.
Examples
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And she said, would you like to sit at the dining room table or the kitchen table?
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"Will you get it?" I said to Michael, who sat at the dining room table with the newspaper.
Academic text (2011) -
And then one day we were sitting at the dining room table, and we paid off our car.
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It's on my dining room table in my apartment.
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You could really use a dining room table.
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We met each week in a different house, sitting around the dining room table with our work.
Academic text (1992) -
I pulled a chair away from the dining room table and sat down.
Fiction book (1993) -
I sit at the dining room table, write this essay, and watch out of the window.
Academic text (2005) -
They just bought a dining room table.
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Sam, Jonah, and Victoria are at the dining room table, finishing the dinner that Victoria cooked.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A table where people eat dinner and other meals
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A table for people to sit around and eat meals together
Surface Forms
Morphology
dining-room + table
The meaning 'a table in the dining room used for meals' is directly derivable from combining 'dining-room' (a room for dining) and 'table' (a flat-topped piece of furniture). This is a straightforward compound noun formation common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Dining-room table is a name made from dining-room and table: picture a table kept in the room where people gather to eat. That's why it means 'a table used for serving and eating meals'.