place mat

1. 1.

   a mat serving as table linen for an individual place setting

   Broadermattable linen

Questions about place mat

What does place mat mean?

place mat means "a mat serving as table linen for an individual place setting".

Is place mat a common word?

place mat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.