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UK
/tˈiːtaɪm/
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NOUN
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a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea
How To Use teatime In A Sentence
- They looked as if they were in a film, and indeed many of them were on the teatime newsreels.
- They met in the post office at teatime one afternoon as they were picking up their copies of the newspaper, which arrives in the village too late for morning collection.
- If it's not interrupting teatime viewing of The Simpsons then it's popping up at the most unearthly of hours.
- This is causing chaos on the road, especially in the mornings and at teatime, and creating a huge traffic build-up.
- Lighter cakes, made with less fruit, to be eaten at teatime or for snacks, include Genoa cake.
- It's not as important as the flavor, but part of what I'm doing at teatime is taking time out from whatever else I was doing, and fiddling with my tea or hot chocolate helps with that. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
- And the actors all played up to it, like foie gras geese at teatime. Times, Sunday Times
- What's the point of hosting the biggest teatime game show around if you can't get the odd holiday out of it? Times, Sunday Times
- By teatime on Tuesday the phone was working again but I still can't get broadband.
- Even as a child, I thought it a lateish hour to be serving an essentially teatime dish.