dish towel

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   a towel for drying dishes

   Synonymsdishtoweltea towel

   Broadertowel

Questions about dish towel

What does dish towel mean?

dish towel means "a towel for drying dishes".

What is another word for dish towel?

Close synonyms include dishtowel, tea towel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dish towel a common word?

dish towel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.