Definition of "dinner-table" [dinner-table]

• The table at which dinner is eaten. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Her parents were well-off, and Kate did attend Bryn Mawr, but dinner-table conversations in the Hepburn household did not re-volve around teas and tennis but, rather, feminism, Marxism, Fabian - ism, even nudism."
• "Also, might I suggest that next time you choose a less fraught dinner-table topic, like abortion?"
• "If he survives into the fall, Mr. Romney and the debate about private equity will become dinner-table discussion."