TEATIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teatime mean? 

• TEATIME (noun)
  The noun TEATIME has 1 sense:

1. a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes

  Familiarity information: TEATIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEATIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

afternoon tea; tea; teatime

Context example:

an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea

Hypernyms ("teatime" is a kind of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Never mind it at present: I shall be coming down before teatime: I'll make it myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At teatime they compared notes, and all agreed that it had been a delightful, though unusually long day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then patchwork or towels appeared, and Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk, when she was allowed to amuse herself as she liked till teatime.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)