CARD TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does card table mean? 

• CARD TABLE (noun)
  The noun CARD TABLE has 2 senses:

1. a table for playing cards (as in a casino)

2. a small light table with folding legs; can be folded for storage

  Familiarity information: CARD TABLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARD TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A table for playing cards (as in a casino)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("card 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small light table with folding legs; can be folded for storage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("card 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 

Elinor was soon called to the card-table by the conclusion of the first rubber, and the confidential discourse of the two ladies was therefore at an end, to which both of them submitted without any reluctance, for nothing had been said on either side to make them dislike each other less than they had done before; and Elinor sat down to the card table with the melancholy persuasion that Edward was not only without affection for the person who was to be his wife; but that he had not even the chance of being tolerably happy in marriage, which sincere affection on HER side would have given, for self-interest alone could induce a woman to keep a man to an engagement, of which she seemed so thoroughly aware that he was weary.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)