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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 garden
  2. tea gardens
  3. tea gown
  4. tea gowns
  5. Tea Green
  6. tea house
  7. tea houses
  8. tea jennies
  9. tea jenny
  10. tea kettle
  11. tea kettles

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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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