Definitions for tabletop

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tabletop ta·ble·top

Spelling: [tey-buh l-top]

IPA: /ˈteɪ bəlˌtɒp/

Tabletop is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in tabletop (abeloptt).

Definitions for tabletop

noun

1. a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
2. a photograph of an arrangement of objects on top of a table.

adjective

1. intended for use on the top of a table or the like.
2. noting or relating to an arrangement of objects, especially miniatures or models, as would be appropriate to the top of a table.
3. noting or relating to a type of game that requires the physical presence of players and the manipulation of game pieces, as board games and some card games or role-playing games but not video games.

Origin of tabletop

First recorded in 1800-10; table + top¹

Examples for tabletop

A tabletop bronze of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot, made around 1500 by the Renaissance sculptor known as Antico.

They were surprised to see standing outside a strange little old man, no higher than the tabletop.

The tabletop was strewn with pens and open rolls of parchment.

The dwarf Erculio sank down cross-legged on the tabletop, his long arms clasped around his knees, watching Manfred sombrely.

Erculio looked like a spider when he bowed, his head touching the tabletop, his elbows bent upward.

But there were no mountains; the country was as flat as a tabletop.

The flavors of pates and juicy chicken and beef adorned our tabletop.

He leaned forward and fixed the tabletop with a piscine stare.

The rapping of his knuckled fist on the tabletop alongside him broke in sharply on the clamour.

In the room three officers of Denisov's band were converting a door into a tabletop.