Word.ws English Dictionary

tea set

tea set noun: a set of crockery for making and serving tea (the drink).

tea set: a set of crockery for making and serving tea (the drink)
Image: sailko, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

tea set (plural tea sets)

  1. A set of crockery for making and serving tea (the drink).
    Synonyms:
    tea service
  2. (Hong-Kong) A meal set served during teatime.

Synonyms of tea set

Forms of tea set

pluraltea sets
alternative formtea-set
alternative formteaset

Origin of tea set

From tea + set.

Questions about tea set

What does tea set mean?
Tea set means a set of crockery for making and serving tea (the drink).
What part of speech is tea set?
Tea set is a noun.
What is the plural of tea set?
The plural of tea set is tea sets.

Words near tea set in the dictionary

  1. tea roses
  2. tea sandwich
  3. tea sandwiches
  4. tea service
  5. tea services
  6. tea set
  7. tea sets
  8. tea shade
  9. tea shades
  10. tea shop
  11. tea shops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tea set (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tea set.wav.

Cite this entry: “tea set.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tea_set. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.