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tearooms

tearooms is the plural 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.

Questions about tearooms

What is tearooms the plural of?
Tearooms is the plural of tearoom.

Words near tearooms in the dictionary

  1. tearme
  2. tearmes
  3. tearoff
  4. tearoffs
  5. tearoom
  6. tearooms
  7. tearout
  8. tearout dubstep
  9. tearouts
  10. tearpit
  11. tearpits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tearooms (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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