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View synonyms for tea shop

tea shop

noun

  1. a tearoom.
  2. British. a caf é or tearoom that specializes in serving light meals and snacks; lunchroom.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tea shop1

First recorded in 1735–45

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Example Sentences

Winton Ross talks to eyewitnesses, including a woman who fled the mall with her daughter, and a worker trapped in a tea shop.

An uncomfortable depression weighed on him as he walked through the streets, and sat with Cornelia in a corner of the tea-shop.

He appeared again the next morning, and had lunch at the tea-shop; the only man among a bevy of women lunching off scones and tea.

I felt that it would be a matter of extraordinary relief if everyone in that tea-shop knew the secret of the Blue Germ.

Her ladyship is lunching at a tea-shop close by—bunning is a more fitting expression—with Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden.

When she left the Forum for a tea shop, both were tired out.

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