tea
a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,241 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,699 times across 173,499 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water iced tea is a cooling drink
- a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes also: afternoon tea, teatime an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea
- a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves also: Camellia sinensis tea has fragrant white flowers
- a reception or party at which tea is served we met at the Dean's tea for newcomers
- dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea also: tea leaf the store shelves held many different kinds of teathey threw the tea into Boston harbor
tea in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Lord Walderhurst did not drop in to afternoon tea.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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There were vegetables, oatmeal, fruit, and even tea and coffee.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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What a joke to think that Caesar was drinking tea with Dirty Dick!
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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That battlemented hull, Tantallon o’ the sea, Kicked in, as at Boston the taxed chests o’ tea!
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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She led the way round the house to where tea was spread under the shade of a large sycamore.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1