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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 tableplay

  Familiarity information: COFFEE-TABLE BOOK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COFFEE-TABLE BOOK (noun)


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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