round table

See also: roundtable and Round Table

English

Etymology

From Middle English rounde table, ronde tabell, equivalent to round +‎ table.

Noun

round table (plural round tables)

1. A conference at which participants of similar status discuss and exchange views.
2. A television show segment in which pundits or reporters discuss current events.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see round,‎ table.

Hypernyms

• table

Translations

conference

• Belarusian: кру́глы сто́л m (krúhly stól)
• Bulgarian: кръ́гла ма́са f (krǎ́gla mása)
• Catalan: taula rodona f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓桌會議／圆桌会议 (zh) (yuánzhuō huìyì)

• Czech: kulatý stůl m
• Dutch: rondetafelbespreking f
• Finnish: pyöreä pöytä
• French: table ronde (fr) f
• Georgian: მრგვალი მაგიდა (mrgvali magida)
• German: runder Tisch m
• Hindi: गोलमेज़ (golmez)
• Hungarian: kerekasztal (hu)
• Japanese: 円卓会議 (えんたくかいぎ, entaku kaigi)
• Korean: 원탁회의 (ko) (wontakhoe'ui)
• Malayalam: വട്ടമേശ (vaṭṭamēśa)
• Polish: okrągły stół m
• Portuguese: mesa redonda f
• Romanian: masă rotundă (ro) f
• Russian: кру́глый стол (ru) m (krúglyj stol), конфере́нция (ru) f (konferéncija) (за кру́глым столо́м)
• Spanish: mesa redonda f
• Turkish: yuvarlak masa (tr)
• Ukrainian: кру́глий сті́л m (krúhlyj stíl)
• Walloon: ronde tåve f
• Yakut: төгүрүк остуол (tögürük ostuol)

References

• round table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia