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COFFEE-TABLE BOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coffee-table book mean?
• COFFEE-TABLE BOOK (noun)
The noun COFFEE-TABLE BOOK has 1 sense:
1. an elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table
Familiarity information: COFFEE-TABLE BOOK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elaborate oversize book suitable for displaying on a coffee table
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("coffee-table book" is a kind of...):
book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)
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