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tea towel

tea towel noun: a cloth, made from cotton or linen, for drying dishes and glassware.

tea towel: a cloth, made from cotton or linen, for drying dishes and glassware
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Noun

tea towel (plural tea towels)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A cloth, made from cotton or linen, for drying dishes and glassware.

tea towel meaning in Bengali

tea towel in Bengali

কাপড়, লিনেন দিয়ে তৈরি

Synonyms of tea towel

Forms of tea towel

pluraltea towels
alternative formtea-towel
alternative formteatowel

Origin of tea towel

From tea + towel. Attested from the middle 19th century. Compare earlier tea-cloth from the late 18th century.

Questions about tea towel

What does tea towel mean?
Tea towel means a cloth, made from cotton or linen, for drying dishes and glassware.
What is tea towel in Bengali?
Tea towel in Bengali is কাপড়, লিনেন দিয়ে তৈরি. See Tea towel meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tea towel?
Tea towel is a noun.
What is the plural of tea towel?
The plural of tea towel is tea towels.

Words near tea towel in the dictionary

  1. tea sticks
  2. tea strainer
  3. tea strainers
  4. tea table
  5. tea tables
  6. tea towel
  7. tea towels
  8. tea tray
  9. tea trays
  10. tea tree
  11. Tea Tree Gully

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea towel (page history and authors); tea towel (Bengali 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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