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tea cup

tea cup is the alternative form of teacup.

Meaning of teacup

Noun

teacup (plural teacups)

  1. A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.
    • "There isn't wind enough to capsize a tea-cup in a gutter," said Rasmus, and shifted his chew of tobacco with a little black chalk pipe, while he looked around him on all sides.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182
  2. A unit of measure; a teacupful.

See all 3 meanings of teacup

Forms of tea cup

pluraltea cups

Questions about tea cup

What is tea cup the alternative form of?
Tea cup is the alternative form of teacup.

Words near tea cup in the dictionary

  1. tea cosey
  2. tea cosies
  3. tea cosy
  4. tea cozies
  5. tea cozy
  6. tea cup
  7. tea cups
  8. tea dance
  9. tea dances
  10. tea dress
  11. tea egg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea cup (page history and authors); teacup (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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