napkin

noun

Definition of napkinnext
as in towel

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Recent Examples of napkin The food Food is solid and plentiful, its impending arrival signaled by a flight attendant bringing down your tray table and laying upon it a white napkin-as-tablecloth. — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026 An employee had gloves on, grabbed a napkin and killed a live cockroach and continued to cook immediately afterward. — Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Back-of-napkin math reveals Indiana may have 60 percent of its cap devoted to three players. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 The sport’s economic model looks like it was drawn up on a cocktail napkin during the Taft administration, and collective bargaining is the right way to fix it. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for napkin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for napkin
  1. towel
  2. tissue
  3. serviette
Noun
  • Williams left the court on a stretcher with towels covering his left leg.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Sanitize solution appears to be greasy and the towels are not clean.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of towel
Noun
  • Doctors detected abnormal breath sounds, and a scan revealed a round blotch in his right lung—a sign of blood, pus, fluid or tissue—but tests for common pathogens came back negative.
    — Rachel Melegrito, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, they’ve been found in blood, breast milk, semen, lung tissue, heart tissue and brains.
    — Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of tissue
Noun
  • In summer, however, the snow lifts like a serviette from a picnic, and Hokkaido is transformed with cinematic national parks, sprawling flower fields, and volcanic hot spots.
    — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2025
  • So take your place á la table, arrange your serviette neatly on your lap, and bon appétit!
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Definition of serviette

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“Napkin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/napkin. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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