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sidetable

sidetable 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 sidetable

pluralsidetables

Questions about sidetable

What is sidetable the alternative form of?
Sidetable is the alternative form of side table.

Words near sidetable in the dictionary

  1. sideswiped
  2. sideswiper
  3. sideswipers
  4. sideswipes
  5. sideswiping
  6. sidetable
  7. sidetables
  8. Sidetan
  9. Sidetans
  10. Sidetic
  11. sidetone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sidetable (page history and authors); side table (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.

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