tableware
2
2.7
- noun
- /ˈteɪbəlˌwɛr/
:
vajilla
- He carefully washed the tableware after the meal, making sure every plate and fork was spotless.
Examples
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Copies of those paintings, which date to 1815, hang in the PNC Park exhibit alongside the kitchenware and tableware the couple once used.
Academic text (2011) -
For the dinner party, she set the table with elegant tableware that included fine china and sparkling glassware.
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It's perfect and adds elegance to the tableware setting.
Blog text (14) -
We run stuff through the wash if it's clothing or linen and through the dishwasher if it's tableware.
Blog text (18) -
All the service departments of his numerous hotels had contracts with firms that supplied tableware, laundry services, service help, liquor, and food.
Fiction book (1990) -
No sign of Ruth other than that all the dishes, tableware, pots, and pans had been washed and put in place.
Fiction book (1999) -
But soon glass making became its own art form to make decorations, ornaments, statues, tableware and containers.
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As well as gold, every important Celtic leader wanted prestige goods from mainland Europe, olive oil, wine, exotic tableware, all the accoutrements of civilisation.
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Normally, at midday, the place was alive with the sounds of eating and drinking: clinking tableware, scraping chairs, the roar of just-concluded jokes, perhaps an accordion.
Fiction book (1995) -
On the tongue-and-groove counter joined to the sink lay a three-piece set of stainless steel tableware as well as a knife that had a wooden handle—my father's blade, I assumed, for filleting fish.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
6
3.5
Plates, cups, and dishes used for serving or eating food
5
2.7
Items like plates and bowls for serving and eating food at a meal
5
2.9
A matching set of plates, knives, and sometimes glasses that you use to serve a formal meal
1
2.8
Plates, bowls, and cups used for serving and eating food
1
3.1
A set of matching dishes and utensils used at the dining table
1
1.3
A matching set of plates, bowls, and cups for serving dinner
How Formal
48
1.1
2
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tableware combines table (the flat surface you eat at) and ware (meaning 'things' or 'goods'), like in silverware or hardware. So tableware means the plates, forks, glasses and other things you use at the table for serving and eating food.