place card

noun

A card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.

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Meanings

nounplace card (plural place cards)

plural place cards

  1. A card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.

    Rachel was sitting at the table writing place cards with her italic fountain pen.

    2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Translations

Catalan targeta
  • targetacard showing one's seat
Finnish nimikortti
  • nimikortticard showing one's seat
Cite this entry
APA

place card. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/place%20card

MLA

“place card.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/place%20card. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “place card,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/place%20card.

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