dinner table
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- noun
- /ˈdɪnər ˈteɪbəl/
- Every night, my family sits at the dinner table and shares stories about our day.
- a family dinner table
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- It wasn't just the adorable one sitting around the dinner table saying wise things.
- But here I was at the dinner table eating dinner and drinking hot coffee.
- that we used to share to our children around the dinner table.
- My idea of rich is never looking, looking at the bill when the dinner table is being set.
- Producers now will bring the foods in and you sit at the dinner table and they will sit themselves around you.
- And we were just talking about this last night at the dinner table and I said to them, what do you guys think about?
- So things they would say to one another over the dinner table they write down and they put in letters that we can read.
- All of the importance of the role we're trying to fill suddenly gets shifted over to this person sitting across the dinner table from us.
- And like I say, I my momentum is my motion and passion is to get people to talk about energy at the dinner table.
- Together we can make our beds, our dinner tables, and our families the safe and peaceful Oasis they should be.
- And yes, the, the, the whatever the dinner table conversation was at your house about politics is or, or religion.
Examples
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All the guests are sitting at the dinner table, eating soup.
Fiction book (1992) -
OK, so you are sitting at the dinner table with your partner and your children.
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But here I was at the dinner table eating dinner and drinking hot coffee.
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And we were just talking about this last night at the dinner table and I said to them, what do you guys think about?
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"You look tired," she said to him across the dinner table that night.
Fiction book (1996) -
I got up from the dinner table that night and left the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
Tonight I'll be sitting across the dinner table from my wife, Helen, and we'll be talking about our sons, Henry and Paul.
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Arguments at the dinner table are quickly settled by a few seconds of Google searching.
Academic text (2015) -
From conversations at the dinner table, I gathered she had been seeing old high school friends.
Fiction book (1995) -
We've had lots of fun at the dinner table kicking around ideas.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A table for people to sit around and eat meals together
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A table in a dining room where people eat meals
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a table where dinner is served' is directly and transparently composed from 'dinner' (the meal) + 'table' (a piece of furniture); the noun–noun combination denotes a purpose/location and follows a common, predictable pattern in English. This construction is cross-linguistically frequent (e.g., Spanish 'mesa de comedor', French 'table à manger'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Dinner table comes from the simple image of a table set for the main meal, 'dinner', where family and friends sit together. That's why it means the table where dinner is served and the place people gather to eat.