dinner table
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dinner table
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Reciting it at the dinner table, Idle snapped his fingers in time with the punchline.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Meredith’s childhood friend called from their dinner table.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Those films left viewers talking long after they departed the theater, ready to relive memories and quotes over the dinner table, at school and at parties.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026
They weren’t to overdo it at their holiday dinner table.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
He sat across the dinner table from Somkit, whose day had just wrapped up.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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