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tea room

tea room is the alternative form of tearoom.

Meaning of tearoom

Noun

tearoom (plural tearooms)

  1. A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
    • At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 11
    Synonyms:
    teahouse
  2. (euphemistic, slang) A public lavatory.
    1. (US, dated, euphemistic, slang) A meeting place for gay men.
      • I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.1973, chapter II, in Deep Dick, page 21
  3. (Australia) A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.

Forms of tea room

pluraltea rooms

Questions about tea room

What is tea room the alternative form of?
Tea room is the alternative form of tearoom.

Words near tea room in the dictionary

  1. tea pets
  2. tea plant
  3. tea plants
  4. tea pot
  5. tea pots
  6. tea room
  7. tea rooms
  8. tea rose
  9. tea roses
  10. tea sandwich
  11. tea sandwiches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tea room (page history and authors); tearoom (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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