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tablecloth

tablecloth noun: a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

tablecloth: a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table
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Noun

tablecloth (plural tablecloths)

  1. A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.
    • Just across the field stood a small house. In the yard the week's washing was hung out. Among the articles was a red tablecloth.1893, Horatio Alger, Jr., Facing the World

tablecloth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

tablecloth in Hindi

a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table
मेज़पोश mezpoś, टेबुल-क्लाथ ṭebul-klāth

tablecloth in Tamil

a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table
மேசைவிரிப்பு mēcaivirippu

tablecloth in Urdu

a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table
میزْپوش mezpoś, ٹیبِل کِلاتھ ṭebil kilāth, دَسْتَرخوان dastarxvān

tablecloth in Bengali

a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table
দস্তরখান dostorkhan
More languagesFewer languages
tablecloth in Malayalam
മേശത്തുണി
tablecloth in Arabic
غِطَاء مَائِدَة ḡiṭāʔ māʔida, غِطَاء الْمَائِدَة ḡiṭāʔ al-māʔida
tablecloth in Malay
alas meja
tablecloth in Indonesian
alas meja, seperah
tablecloth in Thai
ผ้าปูโต๊ะ pâa-bpuu-dtó
tablecloth in Vietnamese
khăn trải bàn

Examples of tablecloth in a sentence

  • This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
  • Stop playing with the seam of the tablecloth! You’ll unravel it.
  • Pin down the tablecloth, so it doesn't blow away in the breeze.

All 21 example sentences with tablecloth

Forms of tablecloth

pluraltablecloths
alternative formtable cloth
alternative formtable-cloth

Plural of tablecloth: tablecloths

Origin of tablecloth

From Middle English tabyllcloth, table cloth, tabylle clothe, a partial translation of earlier Middle English bord cloth, bordcloth (“tablecloth”), from Old English bordclāþ, equivalent to table + cloth.

Words formed from tablecloth

Questions about tablecloth

What does tablecloth mean?
Tablecloth means a cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.
What is tablecloth in Hindi?
Tablecloth in Hindi is मेज़पोश (mezpoś), टेबुल-क्लाथ (ṭebul-klāth). See Tablecloth meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tablecloth?
Tablecloth is a noun.
What is the plural of tablecloth?
The plural of tablecloth is tablecloths.

Words near tablecloth in the dictionary

  1. tableaux vivants
  2. tablebase
  3. tablebases
  4. tablebook
  5. tablebooks
  6. tablecloth
  7. tableclothed
  8. tablecloths
  9. tableclothy
  10. tabled
  11. tableegh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tablecloth (page history and authors); tablecloth (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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