dinner table

noun

A dining table.

“There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.”

Meanings

noundinner table (plural dinner tables)

plural dinner tables · alternative archaic dinner-table · alternative uncommon dinnertable

  1. A table on which dinner (or other food) is served and eaten, particularly in a home.
    1. A dining table.

      There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.

    2. usuallyThe table at dinnertime conceived as a place; it often is the same table at which all meals are served, being at dinnertime the dinner table, at lunchtime the lunch table, and at breakfast time the breakfast table; it is usually either the kitchen table or the dining room table.

      In our house there's a rule that you don't bring your phone to the dinner table, although you're allowed to bring it to the breakfast table.

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Translations

Arabic سُفْرَة
  • سُفْرَة (sufra)table on which dinner is served
Chinese Mandarin 餐桌
  • 餐桌 (cānzhuō)table on which dinner is served
Danish spisebord
  • spisebordtable on which dinner is served
Estonian söögilaud
  • söögilaudtable on which dinner is served
Finnish ruokapöytä, päivällispöytä
  • ruokapöytätable on which dinner is served
  • päivällispöytätable on which dinner is served
Hungarian étkezőasztal
  • étkezőasztaltable on which dinner is served
Icelandic matarborð
  • matarborðtable on which dinner is served
Italian tavolo da cena
  • tavolo da cenatable on which dinner is served
Japanese 食卓, ディナーテーブル
  • 食卓 (shokutaku)table on which dinner is served
  • ディナーテーブル (dinā-tēburu)table on which dinner is served
Korean 식탁
  • 식탁 (siktak)table on which dinner is served
Norwegian Bokmål middagsbord, matbord
  • middagsbordtable on which dinner is served
  • matbordtable on which dinner is served
Portuguese mesa de jantar
  • mesa de jantartable on which dinner is served
Russian обе́денный стол
  • обе́денный стол (obédennyj stol)table on which dinner is served
Spanish mesa de comedor
  • mesa de comedortable on which dinner is served
Swedish middagsbord
  • middagsbordtable on which dinner is served
Turkish sofra, desterhan
  • sofratable on which dinner is served
  • desterhantable on which dinner is served
Cite this entry
APA

dinner table. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner%20table

MLA

“dinner table.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner%20table. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dinner table,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner%20table.

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