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tea-house

tea-house is the alternative form of teahouse.

Meaning of teahouse

Noun

teahouse (plural teahouses)

  1. A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.
  2. (euphemistic) A public lavatory.
    Synonyms:
    tearoom
    1. (US, dated, euphemistic, slang) A meeting place for gay men.

Forms of tea-house

pluraltea-houses

Questions about tea-house

What is tea-house the alternative form of?
Tea-house is the alternative form of teahouse.

Words near tea-house in the dictionary

  1. tea-dress
  2. tea-dresses
  3. tea-gown
  4. tea-gowned
  5. tea-gowns
  6. tea-house
  7. tea-houses
  8. tea-kettle
  9. tea-kettles
  10. tea-leaf
  11. tea-leafing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea-house (page history and authors); teahouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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