night table

noun

1. a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of night table¹

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

It’s the red blinking light atop the phone on his night table.

From FiveThirtyEight

I laid down and, as usual, took a book from my night-table to read myself to sleep.

From Project Gutenberg

My first attempt was to work a hole through the wall, seven feet thick behind, and concealed by the night-table.

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On the night-table, covered with a white cloth, three wax-tapers were burning.

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So long as the medicines had littered the night-table she still had entertained hopes of a miraculous recovery.

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On the night-table lay a tea-tray in disorder, and on the turned-down sheet some crumbs of toast.

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