: a set of dishes and flatware constituting a table service for one person
Examples of place setting in a Sentence
Please lay another place setting for our guest.
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This set is definitely an investment purchase, but the four place setting bundle—including dinner and salad plates, cereal bowls, and coupes—is guaranteed to last you for many years to come.—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 Apr. 2026 At each place setting, offer chopsticks and a fork, plus an Asian soup spoon for slurping the broth.—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Martha Stewart, 20 Feb. 2026 The dining tables were set with red roses, a perfect prop for a photo shoot, as Becky G discovered, as well as deep red candles and a poem by Chavarria himself at each place setting.—Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 16 Feb. 2026 Then feathers started showing up in places where there were no birds or, at an outdoor dinner, landing on her place setting and no one else’s.—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for place setting