lunch table

Cafeteria gathering spot

A lunch table is the table where someone regularly sits during lunch, especially in a school cafeteria.

The term carries strong social connotations—who sits at your lunch table signals group membership, popularity, and social identity: She was finally invited to sit at the cool kids' lunch table.

The lunch table functions as a microcosm of adolescent social hierarchy.

Related

middle school · clique · cool kids · gossip · lunchroom · seating · assigned seats · friends · crowded · noisy · food · food fight · conversation · social · social hierarchy · hierarchy · popular · sandwich

Categories
Opposites
social inclusion

lunch tableeating alone

Consuming food unaccompanied

social isolation · outcast · exclusion · wallflower

furniture function

lunch tabledesk

Furniture for writing

workbench · office desk · study carrel · bed · standing desk

meal timing

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Morning meal surface

dinner table

Family

lunch, table, lunches, luncheon, luncheonette, lunched, lunching, tables, tabled

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G