place setting

1. 1.

   a table service for one person

   “a place setting of sterling flatware”

   Synonymssetting

   Broaderservice

Questions about place setting

What does place setting mean?

place setting means "a table service for one person".

What is another word for place setting?

Close synonyms include setting. 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 place setting a common word?

place setting 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.