head table
noun
: the table at which the most important people sit during a formal meal
the mayor and other dignitaries at the head table
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So, at the last minute, my husband was asked to sit at the head table with his aunt and her husband.
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Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
This one is ideal for the head table, or a single long table.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
Trump and Vance sat at the head table with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC), seated between them.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
Putin, who had been an officer in the KGB for 16 years, effectively invited the security services to take their place at the head table of power and prestige in Russia.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2010
The head table was built from the same silo lumber.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2024
Trump was seated at the head table, between Fanjul—a major Republican donor going back to the early nineties—and Stephen Schwarzman, the C.E.O. of Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity fund, who had endorsed Trump the previous Friday.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
The other Republican who had a seat at the head table for last summer’s gun negotiations is one of minority leader Mitch McConnell’s top lieutenants, John Cornyn of Texas—a leading contender for replacing the ailing GOP leader in the Senate—who shrugs off CDC gun violence research.
—Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
Spence, a Long Island native who grew up in Dallas, sat calmly at the head table of a news conference on Thursday, his three title belts spread before him, his brow shaded by a black baseball cap.
—Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 28 July 2023
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Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
This one is ideal for the head table, or a single long table.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
Trump and Vance sat at the head table with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC), seated between them.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
Putin, who had been an officer in the KGB for 16 years, effectively invited the security services to take their place at the head table of power and prestige in Russia.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2010
The head table was built from the same silo lumber.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2024
Trump was seated at the head table, between Fanjul—a major Republican donor going back to the early nineties—and Stephen Schwarzman, the C.E.O. of Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity fund, who had endorsed Trump the previous Friday.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
The other Republican who had a seat at the head table for last summer’s gun negotiations is one of minority leader Mitch McConnell’s top lieutenants, John Cornyn of Texas—a leading contender for replacing the ailing GOP leader in the Senate—who shrugs off CDC gun violence research.
—Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
Spence, a Long Island native who grew up in Dallas, sat calmly at the head table of a news conference on Thursday, his three title belts spread before him, his brow shaded by a black baseball cap.
—Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 28 July 2023
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“Head table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head%20table. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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