nightstand

noun

night·​stand ˈnīt-ˌstand 

: night table

Examples of nightstand in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

All your living room furniture should sit firmly on the rug (in a bedroom, nightstands are the exception). — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2026

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask Laneige’s Lip Sleeping Mask has been kicking around Allure editors’ nightstands for years, and judging by its 2025 Readers’ Choice Award, plenty of you are just as hooked. — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 6 Oct. 2026

Investigators recovered syringes and a spoon next to a brown powdery substance in the bathroom, as well as a handgun, two shot glasses and a syringe on a nightstand next to the bed, the report states. — Tracy Wright , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2026

On the nightstand next to the bed was a holstered handgun, a syringe and two shot glasses, according to the sheriff's office. — Victoria Arancio, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1852, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nightstand

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand