dinner table

noun

: the table where people eat dinner

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The next post was of a photo of a dinner table, captioned with seven yellow heart emojis, that featured a 9-branch menorah with seven of the eight candles lit. Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025 Green beans are a versatile, nutritious addition to any meal—but are fresh or canned versions better for your dinner table? Sherri Gordon, Health, 21 Dec. 2025 People do napkin math at the dinner table using the latest funding announcements to calculate their friends’ net worths and fret about declining job offers to join Anthropic or OpenAI. Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2025 Growing up in Illinois, Black says her mother only set their family dinner table with forks, unless there was something being served, such as steak, that warranted a knife to cut it. Terry Ward, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dinner table

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“Dinner table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinner%20table. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.

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