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tea

noun

A light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes

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Word Facts

Word length
3
Starts with
T
Ends with
A
Contains
E
Scrabble score
3
CEFR level
A1

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ti

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Definitions

noun

  1. A light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes

    “An Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea”

noun

  1. Dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea

    “The store shelves held many different kinds of tea”

noun

  1. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water

    “Iced tea is a cooling drink”

noun

  1. A tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves

    “Tea has fragrant white flowers”

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Example Sentences

An Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea
The store shelves held many different kinds of tea
They threw the tea into Boston harbor
Iced tea is a cooling drink
Tea has fragrant white flowers

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