: a small restaurant or café that typically serves a variety of teas as well as coffee and light meals
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Its tearoom closed last year to make room for more manufacturing.
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Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
Set in Wisteria, a quaint mountain town in North Carolina, the novel follows Daphne Austen, who runs her late grandmother’s English tearoom Tea Thyme.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Admission to the tearoom was limited to certain categories of people.
—Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2025
Eighteen stainless steel forks and 18 teaspoons were marked with red spots and introduced alongside existing cutlery in a Brisbane hospital tearoom.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
Set in Wisteria, a quaint mountain town in North Carolina, the novel follows Daphne Austen, who runs her late grandmother’s English tearoom Tea Thyme.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Admission to the tearoom was limited to certain categories of people.
—Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2025
Eighteen stainless steel forks and 18 teaspoons were marked with red spots and introduced alongside existing cutlery in a Brisbane hospital tearoom.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tearoom
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“Tearoom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tearoom. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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tearoom
noun
tea·room
ˈtē-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a restaurant serving light meals
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