table napkin

1. 1.

   a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing

   Synonymsnapkinserviette

   Broadertable linen

   Narrowerbibdinner napkintea napkin

Questions about table napkin

What does table napkin mean?

table napkin means "a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing".

What is another word for table napkin?

Close synonyms include napkin, serviette. 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 table napkin a common word?

table napkin 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.