tableful
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- noun
- /ˈteɪbəlˌfʊl/
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mesa llena
- It's the story of a fiery Irish lass who marries a dour Scot, but once widowed, ends up entertaining a tableful of storytelling priests whose tales make up the bulk of the book.
Examples
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For a minute, we imagine her preparing those foods—the pastries, the syrups, the delicate custards—for a tableful of guests whose faces and names we don't recognize.
Fiction book (1990) -
Because the story involves a tableful of characters, I found myself dipping into each of their lives—quite unnecessarily, it turned out.
Academic text (2011) -
Things like cake and a tableful of friends who make me laugh my dented little head off.
Blog text (33) -
"A whole tableful of mommas," Pete said.
Fiction book (2000) -
He set the tray down in front of me as if I were a tableful of people.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the back, laughing, smoking, drinking beer from the bottle, was a tableful of young kids who'd been children when I first started coming here.
Fiction book (2001) -
Tableful of dung beetles.
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Catwoman makes a dazzlingly awesome freefall plunge, finally crashing through a skylight into... INT. A PENTHOUSE GREENHOUSE -- NIGHT and a tableful of flowers.
Fiction book (1992) -
For her birthday party, she prepared a tableful of delicious desserts that everyone enjoyed.
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The holiday dinner was a joyful occasion with a tableful of family and friends gathered around.
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Etymology
The word tableful comes from table and -ful, where -ful means 'full of', just like in handful or cupful. So a tableful is the amount of food or people that fills a table.