high table

1. 1.

   a dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons

   Broaderdining table

   Part ofdining-hall

Questions about high table

What does high table mean?

high table means "a dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons".

Is high table a common word?

high table 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.