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Definitions for tableware
ˈteɪ bəlˌwɛərtable·ware

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tablewarenoun

    articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware)

Wiktionary

  1. tablewarenoun

    The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal.

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  1. tableware

    Tableware refers to the dishes, utensils, and other items used for serving and eating meals, often inclusive of items such as plates, bowls, cups, glasses, knives, forks, spoons, and serving dishes. It can be made from various materials including ceramics, glass, plastic or metal.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tablewarenoun

    ware, or articles collectively, for table use

Wikidata

  1. Tableware

    Tableware is the dishes or dishware used for setting a table, serving food and for dining. Tableware can be meant to include cutlery and glassware. The nature, variety, and number of objects varies from culture to culture, religions, and cuisines. In the United States, tableware is most commonly referred to as dinnerware. Dinnerware can be meant to include glassware, however not flatware. In Britain, the term crockery is sometimes used for ceramic dishes. In the USA, ceramic dinnerware can be referred to as china. Sets of dishes are often referred to as a table service or service set. Table settings or place settings are the dishes, flatware, and glassware used by an individual for formal and informal dining. In Ireland such items are normally referred to as delph, with the term china often used for a higher cost product, such as the porcelain ware produced by Belleek Pottery. The word delph being an English language phonetic spelling of the word delft, named after the town from which so much delftware came from. In the United Kingdom, silver service or butler service are names of methods for serving a meal.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tableware in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tableware in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tableware in a Sentence

  1. Yonatan Adler:

    According to ancient Jewish ritual law, vessels made of pottery are easily made impure and must be broken, stone, on the other hand, was thought to be a material which can never become ritually impure, and as a result ancient Jews began to produce some of their everyday tableware from stone.

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