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tableful

tableful noun: as much as fills a table.

Noun

tableful (plural tablefuls or tablesful)

  1. As much as fills a table.
    • It was a perverse amount of meat — enough to slay a tableful of hungry eaters and send everyone home with a to-go pack of smoky ’cue — and even with gas money figured in it was wildly cheaper than anything in the city.2007 March 7, Peter Meehan, “The Big Apple May Never Be Known as the Big Sparerib, but It’s Smokin’”, in New York Times

Forms of tableful

pluraltablefuls
pluraltablesful

Origin of tableful

From table + -ful.

Questions about tableful

What does tableful mean?
Tableful means as much as fills a table.
What part of speech is tableful?
Tableful is a noun.
What is the plural of tableful?
The plural of tableful is tablefuls.

Words near tableful in the dictionary

  1. tabled
  2. tableegh
  3. tablefellow
  4. tablefellows
  5. tablefellowship
  6. tableful
  7. tablefuls
  8. tablegrape
  9. tablegrapes
  10. tablehood
  11. tablehopper

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