Other forms: nightstands
A nightstand is the little table beside your bed for a lamp and a book. On the nightstand, a wooden nightstand, clear the nightstand.
This is the American word; British English says bedside table or bedside cabinet. What is on it is a fair picture of a person — the book, the glass of water, the things nobody else sees. It came from a stand for a chamber pot.
1nounnightstandA small table beside a bed.
“She keeps a glass of water and a book on her nightstand.”
nightstand is a table.
Also accepted in games: bedside table
Night plus stand. The original held a candle and a chamber pot within reach of the bed.
From night + stand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA