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say it: DIN-ur-wer
dinnerware is a noun meaning "the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal". It is pronounced /ˈdɪnɚˌwɛɹ/ — DIN-ur-wer. It carries one recorded sense.
the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dinnerware come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.