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tea-table

tea-table is the alternative form of tea table.

Meaning of tea table

Noun

tea table (plural tea tables)

  1. A small table upon which tea is set to be served.
    • Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it, they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness.1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  2. A type of rock column comprising discrete layers, with the top layers being wider than the base due to greater resistance to erosion and weathering.

Forms of tea-table

pluraltea-tables

Questions about tea-table

What is tea-table the alternative form of?
Tea-table is the alternative form of tea table.

Words near tea-table in the dictionary

  1. tea-set
  2. tea-sets
  3. tea-shade
  4. tea-shop
  5. tea-shops
  6. tea-table
  7. tea-tables
  8. TEA-TEB
  9. tea-things
  10. tea-time
  11. tea-times

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea-table (page history and authors); tea 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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