tablemate

Examples

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• "Jasper!" Jazz, watching what Lee did, the way a person faced with eating snails for the first time observes a tablemate, leaned in toward Leonard and allowed himself to be gathered into a desperate embrace.

  Fiction book (1996)

• When the food arrives, there is no move more presumptuous and self-indulgent than forcing your tablemates to sit on their hands while you frame up the perfect shot.

  Blog text (12)

• Your partner will be your tablemate.

  Wonder (2017)

• Nobody talked to tablemates except for those few who clearly were having a breakfast meeting.

  Blog text (13)

• And so I had to translate everything he mumbled to my tablemates.

  Blog text (15)

• She laughs, her fellow tablemates laugh, everybody laughs.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I felt a little awkward knowing that I was about to address the crowd about the deceased baby for whom the home was named and speak of my husband's death, and three of my tablemates suffered terrible deaths of their babies at term. For a split second, I thought, "Well, you are right, but I'm sitting over there at the 'death' table."

  Blog text (15)

• Tommy's tablemate is lawyer-lobbyist Tommy O'Connor, 40s.

  Fiction book (1992)

• This is never okay—your tablemates are just too polite to tell you.

  Blog text (12)

• I had my own mystifying experience during dinner when, only after spending an inordinate time talking to a man whose name I didn't catch, did I realize that my tablemate was Whit Stillman, one of my all-time favorite directors!

  Blog text (30)

Synonyms

D

dining companion

vstablemate

1 2.8

A person who shares a meal with you in a social setting

involves sharing a table without a social focus

M

messmate

vstablemate

• Jargon

1 8.5

A person you regularly eat meals with on a ship or in the military

refers to sharing any table, not limited to regular institutional meals

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