tea room

A form of tearoom — A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

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Meanings

nountea room (plural tea rooms)

plural tea rooms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tearoom: a cafe or (in gay parlance only) a public lavatory.

    And that's not all - the historic timber tea room has been dismantled to allow the platforms to be altered. […] The tea room - one of the few timber station buildings still in front line service - will then be painstakingly rebuilt, but in a slightly different position.

    2025 July 23, Richard Foster, “Huddersfield's overdue makeover”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 36

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
cafécottageteahouse
Cite this entry
APA

tea room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tea%20room

MLA

“tea room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tea%20room. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tea room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tea%20room.

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