hand towel

1. 1.

   a small towel used to dry the hands or face

   Synonymsface towel

   Broadertowel

Questions about hand towel

What does hand towel mean?

hand towel means "a small towel used to dry the hands or face".

What is another word for hand towel?

Close synonyms include face 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 hand towel a common word?

hand 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.