TEA TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tea table mean? 

• TEA TABLE (noun)
  The noun TEA TABLE has 1 sense:

1. a small table for serving afternoon tea

  Familiarity information: TEA TABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEA TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small table for serving afternoon tea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tea table" is a kind of...):

table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)

 Context examples 

Meg arranged the tea table, Jo brought wood and set chairs, dropping, over-turning, and clattering everything she touched.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As Mr. Wickfield glanced towards her, sitting at the tea table by Agnes, she seemed to me to avoid his look with such unwonted hesitation and timidity, that his attention became fixed upon her, as if something were suggested to his thoughts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The tea table was ready, and our little locker was put out in its old place, but instead of coming to sit by me, she went and bestowed her company upon that grumbling Mrs. Gummidge: and on Mr. Peggotty's inquiring why, rumpled her hair all over her face to hide it, and could do nothing but laugh.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)