dinner table

1. A table on which dinner (or other food) is served and eaten, particularly in a home.

   A dining table.

   There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.

   обе́денный столobédennyj stol

   the dining table where dinner is served and eaten

2. (usually)The table at dinnertime conceived as a place; it often is the same table at which all meals are served, being at dinnertime the dinner table, at lunchtime the lunch table, and at breakfast time the breakfast table; it is usually either the kitchen table or the dining room table.

   In our house there's a rule that you don't bring your phone to the dinner table, although you're allowed to bring it to the breakfast table.

1. Why is there no dinner on the table?

   Чому на столі немає вечері?

   ruПочему на столе нет ужина?

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2. Tom sat down at the dinner table.

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3. That isn't a proper subject to bring up in conversation at the dinner table.

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4. That's not a proper subject to bring up in conversation at the dinner table.

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5. Peace begins at the dinner table.

   deFrieden beginnt am Esstisch.

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regular

• dinner-tablealternative archaic
• dinnertablealternative uncommon