nightstand

[ nahyt-stand ]

noun

1. night table.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nightstand¹

First recorded in 1960–65; night + stand

Example Sentences

Her bedroom is a shrine to her grandson — photo collages on the walls, smaller pictures wedged into the frame of a mirror over the dresser, even smaller ones on her nightstand.

From Washington Post

He told me that when Ed was in the hospital and everyone knew the end was coming, his grandkids gave him a toy bus and he kept it on his nightstand.

From Vox

While the Roam won’t replace the booming power of something like the stationary Sonos 1 speaker, it can shrink the connected speaker experience to fit on your tiny nightstand, or sit unobtrusive on a windowsill.

From Time

Best of all, its ergonomic design hides pesky cables, making your desk or nightstand neat and organized.

From Popular-Science

It was a day off and everybody had tremendous skill and knowledge, but we seemed to have left our brains on the nightstand when we went out.

From Washington Post

She said, I take that card to my bed at night, I put it on the nightstand.

From The Daily Beast

There is a reason why I keep a bb gun in my nightstand that could easily be mistaken for a handgun.

From The Daily Beast

Mottola went to work and left a note with lyrics to an Elton John song on the nightstand: “Butterflies are free to fly/Fly away…”

From The Daily Beast

Instead, he picked up the Bible on the nightstand and began “reading passages from Scripture aloud to them.”

From The Daily Beast

Urn Burial is a bedside book, a nightstand book, one that begs to be read in a wind-lashed, lightning-struck manor.

From The Daily Beast

He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap.

From Project Gutenberg

He laid the pile of five-franc pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his chamber without saying a word.

From Project Gutenberg

A scarlet tinder-box glowed among a pile of books on the nightstand.

From Project Gutenberg

She was at the moment running over in her mind a "situation" in a paper-covered novel turned down on her nightstand.

From Project Gutenberg

He drained his glass, put it on the nightstand, and closed his eyes to think.

From Project Gutenberg