dining companion

1. 1.

   someone you dine with

   Synonymstablemate

   Broaderdiner

Questions about dining companion

What does dining companion mean?

dining companion means "someone you dine with".

What is another word for dining companion?

Close synonyms include tablemate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dining companion a common word?

dining companion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.