tableful
ta·ble·ful [ ˈtā-bəl-ˌfu̇l]
[ˈtā-bəl-ˌfu̇l]
: as much or as many as a table can hold or accommodate Recent Examples on the Web
//That morning, a tableful of F.B.I. SWAT operators were sitting nearby, dressed in fatigues, silently inhaling their food.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, "Leading Dayton, Ohio, in an Era of Guns, Trump, and Madness," 12 Aug. 2019
//Word of the weekly dinners began to spread: shared between cubicles at City Hall; passed from one neighbor to another in apartment elevators; overheard on walking tours, in local parks and from a tableful of strangers at Sunday brunch.
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Liz Leyden, New York Times, "Celebrating Newark, One Supper at a Time," 19 Jan. 2018
//In 2009 Kimball masterminded a 12-course dinner straight from the original cookbook, prepared by a team of cooks using authentic ingredients, cooked over an antique woodburning stove, and served to the acclaim of a tableful of guests.
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CBS News, "Almanac: Fannie Farmer," 7 Jan. 2018
//A chicken dinner, with soup, salad and a tableful of fixins is around $18.
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Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, "Petey's Bungalow harkens back to glory days of the American supper club," 7 July 2017
//Platters are huge; a tableful of eaters may be better off ordering a la carte ($15 for broth; $6.95-$8.95 per meat; and $2.95-$3.95 per vegetable) rather than the combo.
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Eric Velasco, AL.com, "Hot Pot: The Chinese delicacy you need to try at Black Pearl in Homewood," 16 June 2017
//With the help of headphones and a tableful of interpreters, the meeting was translated in 10 different Asian languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Mongolian and Korean and Tagalog.
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Ana B. Ibarra And Kellen Browning, Kaiser Health News, "A Community Seeks Answers, Assurances About Health Care — In 10 Languages," 5 June 2017
First Known Use of tableful
1535, in the meaning defined above
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