🇬🇧 Tablet meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card
noun
A tablet is a thin, flat, hard piece of material, such as stone, wood, or metal. Long ago, people used stone tablets to carve or write important messages before paper was common. A tablet is usually shaped like a rectangle or square and can be held in your hands, carried around, or placed on a stand or wall. It’s strong and solid, not bendy like paper, and is often used for writing, decorating, or showing information.
The stone tablet in the museum looks very serious, but I’m pretty sure it’s just an ancient to-do list someone forgot to finish.
I tried to write a love poem on a stone tablet, but by the time I finished carving, I didn’t like the poem anymore.
Our history project was to make a clay tablet, but mine just looks like a very confused cookie.
Archaeologists found an old tablet that basically said, "Clean your room," proving parents have been annoying for thousands of years.
Long before paper and books, people in places like Mesopotamia wrote on clay tablets, so somewhere in a museum there might be a 4,000-year-old tablet that is basically someone’s ancient math homework.
On the beach, a child found a flat tablet half buried in sand. The child wiped the tablet with a sleeve and saw carved letters across the tablet. She pressed her ear to the tablet, felt its cool hard edge, and laughed when a small crab slipped off the tablet into the tide. She held the tablet like a prize.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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