How do you use the word "table" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "table": Place the deck of cards on the oaken table. You must clear the table.

Table Meaning

/ˈteɪbl̩/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounFurniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

nounFurniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses., An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.

Sentence Examples

Place the deck of cards on the oaken table.

You must clear the table.

We sat at a round table in the corner.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

defer postpone remit

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The family gathered around the large wooden ____ to share a meal and talk.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We gathered around the large wooden ____ in the dining room to enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal together today.

Word Origin & History

Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]." — 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?" — c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:

"The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order … And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation. Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables … Western reason had entered the age of judgement." — 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 69:

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