table

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A piece of furniture with a flat top and legs that you put things on or sit at.

   Please put the plates on the table.

2. 2
   noun

   A set of facts or numbers arranged in rows and columns.

   The results are shown in the table below.

3. 3
   noun

   The group of people sitting at a table together.

   She kept the whole table laughing with her jokes.

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Simplified etymology

Table comes from Latin tabula, meaning a flat board, slab, or surface. Its earliest English senses referred to such flat objects, including gaming boards; the familiar piece of furniture with legs developed around 1300. The same Latin source underlies tablet.

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.

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