dinner plate

1. 1.

   a plate from which a diner eats during the main course of a meal

   Broaderplate

Questions about dinner plate

What does dinner plate mean?

dinner plate means "a plate from which a diner eats during the main course of a meal".

Is dinner plate a common word?

dinner plate 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.