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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
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ti

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Meaning

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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