Meanings
plural dinner tables · alternative archaic dinner-table · alternative uncommon dinnertable
- A table on which dinner (or other food) is served and eaten, particularly in a home.
- A dining table.
There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.
- 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.
Synonyms & antonyms
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
dinner table. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner%20table
“dinner table.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner%20table. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dinner table,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinner%20table.
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