tea towel

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   a towel for drying dishes

   Synonymsdishtoweldish towel

   Broadertowel

Questions about tea towel

What does tea towel mean?

tea towel means "a towel for drying dishes".

What is another word for tea towel?

Close synonyms include dishtowel, dish 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 tea towel a common word?

tea towel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.