## Meanings
1. A piece of furniture with a flat top and legs that you put things on or sit at.
2. A set of facts or numbers arranged in rows and columns.
3. The group of people sitting at a table together.

## Examples
- Please put the plates on the table.
- The results are shown in the table below.
- She kept the whole table laughing with her jokes.

## Synonyms
- grid
- vector

## Derived Forms
- crosstable
- down-table
- entable
- farm-to-table
- hashtable
- metatable
- midtable
- multitable
- readtable
- soundtable
- style-table
- table-cloth

## Related Forms
- tabulate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: table
- Root: tabele
- Root: tabula

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Table is 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. In present-day use, it can mean a piece of furniture with a flat top and legs that you put things on or sit at, or a set of facts or numbers arranged in rows and columns.

## Topics
- House & Home

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