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side-table

side-table is the alternative form of side table.

Meaning of side table

Noun

side table (plural side tables)

  1. A small table intended to be placed beside a larger piece of furniture, such as a bed or sofa.
    • Upon the infinitely wise countrywoman’s suggestion, she goose-penned, from the edge of her bed, on a side table with cabriole legs, a love letter and took five minutes to reread it in a languorous but loud voice […]1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 15

Forms of side-table

pluralside-tables

Questions about side-table

What is side-table the alternative form of?
Side-table is the alternative form of side table.

Words near side-table in the dictionary

  1. side-striped jackals
  2. side-swipe
  3. side-swiped
  4. side-swipes
  5. side-swiping
  6. side-table
  7. side-tables
  8. side-taking
  9. side-to-side
  10. side-tracked
  11. side-view mirror

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