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Coffee Table

Definition: Coffee Table

Coffee Table

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Coffee Table

DomainDefinition

Personal Care & Hotels

Any low table customarily placed in front of a sofa. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Coffee Table

Synonym: cocktail table (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Coffee Table

English words defined with "coffee table": coffee-table book. (references)

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Modern Usage: Coffee Table

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Some day me and Adele be walking down the road and we'll see your book and we'll buy it and put it on our coffee table. (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.)

You remember that coffee table book I wrote? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

This goes perfectly with the other magazines on my coffee table - Where Are The Babies? (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Coffee Table

DomainTitle

Books

  • Arts-and-Crafts Collection Coffee Table and Ottoman : Woodworking Plan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Glass-Topped Coffee Table : Woodworking Plan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Jane Doe's Coffee Table Book About Rape (reference)

  • Robertas Coffee Table Book of Love: Just Another Stuffed Poet (reference)

  • Stylish Solutions: What You Can Do About a Coffee Table... and Answers to Other Decorating Dilemmas (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Coffee Table

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coffee Table

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coffee table

2,516

cheap coffee table

29

glass coffee table

250

unique coffee table

28

contemporary coffee table

121

furniture coffee table

28

square coffee table

94

build a coffee table

26

modern coffee table

93

coffee table set

24

aquarium coffee table

71

oval coffee table

24

round coffee table

69

display coffee table

23

glass top coffee table

61

metal coffee table

23

trunk coffee table

57

coffee table design

23

wood coffee table

56

antique coffee table

23

coffee table book

50

cherry coffee table

22

wrought iron coffee table

47

mission coffee table

21

black coffee table

44

large coffee table

21

storage coffee table

44

rustic coffee table

21

marble coffee table

42

discount coffee table

20

lift top coffee table

39

ottoman coffee table

20

coffee table fish tank

38

leather coffee table

20

pine coffee table

38

stone coffee table

19

oak coffee table

38

chest coffee table

17

coffee table and end table

31

coffee table with drawers

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coffee Table

Language Translations for "coffee table"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tryezë e ulët. (various references)

   

Czech

  

stolek na kávu. (various references)

   

Danish

  

sofaborde, prydbord. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

salontafeltje, pronktafeltje, lage salontafel. (various references)

   

French

  

table de salon, table basse de salon. (various references)

   

German

  

couchtisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαμηλό τραπεζάκι σαλονιού, τραπέζι σαλονιού. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dohányzóasztal. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tavolo basso di salone, tavolino da caffè, tavolino basso, tavolino. (various references)

   

Manx

  

boayrd caffee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeecay abletay

   

Portuguese

  

mesinha de sala, mesa de salão, mesa de sala, mesa de centro, mesa de café, mesa baixa. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кофейный столик. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nizak sto. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mesita baja, mesa baja de salón. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

soffbord. (various references)

   

Thai

  

โต๊ะเตี้ยๆ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sehpa (horse, stand, stillage, trestle, trestlework, tripod), çay masası. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coffee Table

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-e-f-f-l-o-t"

-4 letters: beefalo, effable, offbeat.

-5 letters: affect, baffle, beetle, beflea, boatel, bolete, cablet, coatee, cobalt, coffee, coffle, efface, effect, effete, facete, feeble, fleece, foetal, folate, lobate, locate, oblate, oleate, toffee.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coffee Table


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 66 66 65 65      54 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01010100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#84 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0066 0066 0065 0065      0054 0061 0062 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37817272717125467687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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