dinner service

Coordinated plate set

A dinner service is a matching set of dishes for serving and eating meals—typically plates, bowls, serving dishes, and sometimes cups and saucers, all in a coordinated pattern.

The term is more common in British English; Americans often say dinnerware set or simply china: She inherited her grandmother's dinner service.

Related

tableware · crockery · table setting · white gloves · place setting · set the table · silverware · cutlery · napkins · tablecloth · courses · waitstaff · restaurant · banquet · formal · gravy boat · tureen · charger

Categories
Opposites
coordination and matching

dinner serviceeclectic mix

Varied combination from sources

odds and ends · hodgepodge · thrift store finds

formality and occasion

dinner servicepaper plates

Single-use dining surfaces

picnicware

completeness

dinner serviceremnants

What stays after most goes

Family

dinner, service, dine, diner, diners, dinners, dining, serve, served

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G