nightstand

See also: night-stand and night stand

English

A contemporary nightstand.

Alternative forms

• night stand, night-stand

Etymology

From night (“the conventional time for a person to be in bed”) +‎ stand (“an object which supports things”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

nightstand (plural nightstands)

1. (US) A small table or cabinet, usually with two drawers one above the other or one drawer and a lower shelf, placed beside the head of a bed.

   He always kept a full glass of water on the nightstand.

Synonyms

• bedside table, night table

Hypernyms

• end table, side table

Related terms

• washstand (sometimes coinstantial)

Translations

small table placed beside the head of a bed

• Arabic: مِنْضَدة اَلسَّرِير (minḍada(t) as-sarīr)

  Hijazi Arabic: كُمَدينة m (kumadīna)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: нощно шкафче n (noštno škafče)
• Catalan: tauleta de nit f, comodí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 床頭櫃／床头柜 (zh) (chuángtóuguì)

• Czech: noční stolek m
• Danish: natbord (da) n
• Dutch: nachtkastje (nl) n
• Esperanto: noktotablo
• Finnish: yöpöytä (fi)
• French: table de nuit (fr) f, table de chevet (fr) f, liseuse (fr) f
• German: Nachttisch (de) m
• Greek: κομοδίνο (el) n (komodíno)
• Hungarian: éjjeliszekrény (hu)
• Icelandic: náttborð
• Ido: litotableto (io)
• Irish: bord cois leapa m, bord éadain m
• Italian: comodino (it) m
• Japanese: ナイトテーブル (naito tēburu), ナイトスタンド (naitosutando)
• Kazakh: тумбочка (tumboçka)
• Korean: 나이트스탠드 (naiteuseutaendeu), 침실용 탁자 (chimsiryong takja)
• Macedonian: на́ткасна f (nátkasna)
• Norwegian: nattbord n
• Occitan: taula de nuech f
• Polish: nakastlik (pl) m, szafka nocna (pl) f
• Portuguese: criado-mudo (pt) m (Brazil), mesinha-de-cabeceira (pt) f, mesa-de-cabeceira (pt) f
• Romanian: măsuță de noapte (ro) f
• Russian: ту́мбочка (ru) f (túmbočka)
• Slovak: nočný stolík m
• Spanish: mesa de noche (es) f, mesita de noche f, buró m (Mexico), mesilla de noche f (Spain), mesita de luz f (Argentina), velador (es) m (Chile), nochero (es) (Colombia), mesa nocturna f, mesilla f, mesa de luz f (Argentina, Uruguay), mesa lumínica f
• Swedish: nattduksbord (sv), sängbord (sv)
• Turkish: komodin (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: bwrdd erchwyn m (North), byrddau erchwyn m pl, bord erchwyn f (South), bordydd ercwhyn f pl
• Yiddish: בעטטישל (bettishl)

Further reading

• nightstand on Wikipedia.Wikipedia