Definitions for tea

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tea tea

Spelling: [tee]

IPA: /ti/

Tea is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in tea (aet).

Definitions for tea

noun

1. the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
2. the shrub itself, extensively cultivated in China, Japan, India, etc., and having fragrant white flowers. Compare tea family.
3. the beverage so prepared, served hot or iced.
4. any kind of leaves, flowers, etc., so used, or any plant yielding them.
5. any of various infusions prepared from the leaves, flowers, etc., of other plants, and used as beverages or medicines.
6. beef bouillon.
7. British. any meal, whether a light snack or one consisting of several courses, eaten in the late afternoon or in the evening; any meal other than dinner, eaten after the middle of the afternoon.
8. an afternoon reception at which tea is served.
9. Slang. marijuana.

Idioms

1. one's cup of tea, something suitable, appropriate, or attractive to one:

Origin of tea

1590-1600; 1940-45 for def 9; dialectal Chinese (Xiamen) t'e, akin to Chinese chá

Examples for tea

She tried to talk to Mr. Brailsford when he handed her the tea and bread and butter.

Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the tea Party.

Finally, he says, “Would you like a cup of tea or something?”

"Come down to the crick with me after tea, and I'll explain," said Will.

Finished our bacon this morning, and for the future will only have damper and tea.

We had a pannican of tea, and gave our horses an hour and a half's rest.

At the hospital, I was told to wait, and was given some tea by a nurse.

Some imagine Senator Elizabeth Warren as the charismatic leader of a progressive version of the “tea party.”

While she was drinking her second cup of tea her eyes kept roving.

So it was ironic a couple of months later when the tea Partiers were railing against it—it had already expired.