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Definition of Round table

1. Noun. A meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views. "A roundtable on the future of computing"

2. Noun. (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights.

Definition of Round table

1. Noun. A conference at which participants of similar status discuss and exchange views ¹

2. Noun. A television show segment in which pundits or reporters discuss current events. ¹

3. Noun. (&lit round table) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Table

round of applause round of applauses round of drinks round of golf round off round out round pelvis round pneumonia round pronator muscle round robin

round robins round scad round shape round shot round steak round table (current term) round tables round the Horn round the bend round the clock

round the twist round top round trip round trips round tuit round tuits round turn round turns round up round whitefish

Literary usage of Round table

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... of-the round table. There wore 150 knights who had "sieges" at the table. ... Harcourt's round table. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"422 THE round table FOR FINE SLIME 422 Construction of Slime Plant at Great Falls 424 Tests on Wood, Linoleum, and Cement Decks 426 Central Feed Apron ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... OF ARTHUR'S round table. BLEST be the times, for ever past away, When England boasted of her proud array Of noble knights and chiefs of nigh renown, ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"THE solemnity of the round table, so celebrated in romantic history, was common to all the various ages of chivalry, and particularly to that of King Arthur ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"Every nation embraced and adorned the popular romance of Arthur, and the Knights of the round table : their names were celebrated in Greece and Italy ..."

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