tea

Meaning of tea

noun
  1. a hot drink made by infusing the dried crushed leaves of the tea plant in boiling water.
    Katherine sipped her tea
  2. the evergreen shrub or small tree which produces tea leaves, native to southern and eastern Asia and grown as a major cash crop.
  3. a light afternoon meal consisting typically of tea to drink, sandwiches, and cakes.
    they were about to take afternoon tea
    picnic teas
  4. secret information or rumours of a scandalous nature; gossip.
    the star spilled the tea on her younger sister's romantic life
    he dropped a little more tea about the situation on his radio show
verb
  1. drink tea or take afternoon tea.
    I teaed with Professor Herron

mid 17th century: probably via Malay from Chinese (Min dialect) te ; related to Mandarin chá . Compare with char3.

Information about tea

Hyphenation of tea

tea

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • tea is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tea synonyms

Meaning afternoon tea:

teatime

Translation of tea

Anagrams of tea

Ate, ate, eat, Eta, eta

Words that rhyme with tea

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