Meaning

noun a set of data arranged in rows and columns

noun a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs

noun a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it

originInherited 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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