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dinner plate

American  

noun

  1. a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.


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Pharmaceutical scientist Associate Professor Kamal Dua of the University of Technology Sydney estimates that adults consume about 250 grams of microplastics each year, roughly the amount needed to cover a dinner plate.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

These cores, as wide as a dinner plate, yielded hundreds of samples of ancient air—including the first ever from the Pliocene, which ended about 2.6 million years ago with the start of the ice ages.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2024

There is something so delicious about a soft carrot with a little sweetness on your dinner plate, and I feel like wintertime is the best time to add candied carrots to your weeknight dinner rotation.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024

But you'd be guessing for a while if you were wondering what KJT thinks is the most underrated thing on her Christmas dinner plate.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2023

He saw a receding wash of gray and blue fading in a haze toward the setting sun, like something oriental on a dinner plate.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan