COCKTAIL TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocktail table mean? 

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

1. low table where magazines can be placed and coffee or cocktails are served

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKTAIL TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low table where magazines can be placed and coffee or cocktails are served

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cocktail table; coffee table

Hypernyms ("cocktail 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 

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)