kitchen table
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- noun
- /ˈkɪtʃən ˈteɪbəl/
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mesa de la cocina
- It's on the kitchen table where you left it!
- sit at the kitchen table
I, that was our kitchen table conversation when I was a kid.
- I, that was our kitchen table conversation when I was a kid.
- And on the kitchen table is a little teeny pile of cut toenails.
- It's just that now my desk is also my kitchen table.
- So there were all the Thoreau books and Stevenson books on my kitchen table, and I read this in Stevenson.
- And I said, I'd really like to sit at the kitchen table.
- Also took me to my first bingo night and vivid conversations around her mother's kitchen table, later hers.
- I, I still read it occasionally, and in fact, it's on my kitchen table because of this talk at this very moment.
- When we got home, we got into the house, into the kitchen, and I was standing by the kitchen table, hands rested on it.
- Anyways, I was at the kitchen table and she said I would never want your life.
- But whenever they used to not do that, we would just have Taurus stand on the kitchen table and actually.
- So why is that happened that you can spend, you can drain a whole bottle of vodka at the at the kitchen table trying to talk about that.
- What gave me confidence when spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write on my own?
- To get through the giant stack of mail that's on your kitchen table, only to next week have a new stack of mail have it which you don't want.
Examples
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One morning, I was sitting at my kitchen table, staring into space.
Academic text (1999) -
The money for his medicine is on the kitchen table.
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Now I will sit at my kitchen table and eat my breakfast.
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And then he was sitting at the kitchen table with me when my mom comes in.
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We went back inside the lodge and sat at the kitchen table until he came in.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every single day he was in the shop, and every single night, he was at the kitchen table with Mia, helping her with her homework.
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I recall with absolute clarity a conversation we had at the kitchen table one evening in November.
Academic text (2004) -
MUM: Your homework's all over the kitchen table.
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So when we couldn't be at the park, we were at the kitchen table listening intently to every broadcast.
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Now I will sit at my kitchen table and eat my breakfast.
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
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a table located in or used for dining in the kitchen' is directly and compositionally derived from 'kitchen' (room for cooking) + 'table' (flat-topped furniture). This modifier–head noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Kitchen table comes from the simple idea of a kitchen, the room where food is made, and a table, the flat piece of furniture used for eating. In many homes the kitchen table was the main place to eat, do homework and talk, so today kitchen table means 'a table used for dining and everyday family life'.