Word.ws English Dictionary

night-stand

night-stand is the alternative form of nightstand.

Meaning of nightstand

Noun

nightstand (plural nightstands)

  1. (US) A small table or cabinet, often with one or more drawers or shelves, placed beside the head of a bed.
    • He always kept a full glass of water on the nightstand.

Forms of night-stand

pluralnight-stands

Questions about night-stand

What is night-stand the alternative form of?
Night-stand is the alternative form of nightstand.

Words near night-stand in the dictionary

  1. night-soils
  2. night-song
  3. night-songs
  4. night-stalker
  5. night-stalkers
  6. night-stand
  7. night-stands
  8. night-time
  9. night-times
  10. night-tripping
  11. night-watch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: night-stand (page history and authors); nightstand (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “night-stand.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/night-stand. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.