tearoom
US/ˈtiˌɹum/
tearoom noun: a café which serves tea, usually with light food.
Noun
tearoom (plural tearooms)
- 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
- A public lavatory.
- Synonyms:
- teahouse, gingerbread office, cottage, beat, bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal
- 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
- I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.1975, chapter III, in Hard-Headed Dick, page 39
- A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.
tearoom meaning in Bengali
tearoom in Bengali
- চা পরিবেশনকারী একটি ক্যাফে, একটি সার্বজনীন শৌচাগার, কর্মক্ষেত্রে একটি কক্ষ, যেখানে চা বিরতি, মধ্যাহ্নভোজ, একটি বিরতি কক্ষ
Synonyms of tearoom
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Forms of tearoom
| plural | tearooms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tea room |
Origin of tearoom
From tea + room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room (“toilet room”).
Questions about tearoom
- What does tearoom mean?
- Tearoom means a café which serves tea, usually with light food.
- What is tearoom in Bengali?
- Tearoom in Bengali is চা পরিবেশনকারী একটি ক্যাফে, একটি সার্বজনীন শৌচাগার, কর্মক্ষেত্রে একটি কক্ষ. See Tearoom meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is tearoom?
- Tearoom is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tearoom?
- Tearoom is pronounced /ˈtiˌɹum/ (US).
- What is the plural of tearoom?
- The plural of tearoom is tearooms.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tearoom (page history and authors); tearoom (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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