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Tearoom

Definition: Tearoom

Tearoom

Noun

1. (British) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Tearoom

Synonyms: tea parlor (n), tea parlour (n), teahouse (n), teashop (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Tearoom

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Tearoom

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Usage Frequency: Tearoom

"Tearoom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tearoom" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2569,787

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tearoom

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tearoom

39

tearoom sex

15

tearoom twinings

6

tearoom tour

5

tearoom trade

5

gay tearoom

4

macs mary tearoom

4

james st tearoom

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tearoom

Language Translations for "tearoom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kafene (café, coffee bar, coffee room, coffee-house, cook-shop, public house, tea-shop). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مقهى (cabaret, cafe), ‏صالة الشاي. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kavárna (café, cafe, coffee house, coffee palace, coffee room, coffeehouse), èajovna (tea house, teahouse, tea-room). (various references)

   

French

  

salon de thé. (various references)

   

German

  

Teestube. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατάστημα όπου σερβίρονται τσάι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בית קפ" (cafי). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sala da the\, sala da tè. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

茶室 (tea arbour). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちゃしつ (tea arbour). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earoomtay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

кафе-кондитерская. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čajdžinica (teahouse). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

salón de té, cuarto de té. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

teservering. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çayevi (coffeehouse, teahouse), çay salonu (teahouse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tearoom

Derivations

Words beginning with "tearoom": tearooms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tearoom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: searoom, taero, Tarom, tearo, teratoma, tercom, terum, Tregarron. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tearoom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-o-r-t"

-1 letter: mooter.

-2 letters: amort, armet, mater, metro, morae, motor, oater, orate, ramet, romeo, tamer.

-3 letters: aero, atom, mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, moat, moor, moot, mora, more, mort, mote, omer, rate, rato, ream, roam, room, root, rota, rote, roto, tame, tare, taro, team, tear, term, toea, tome, toom, tora, tore, toro, tram.

-4 letters: are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, mae, mar, mat, met, moa, moo, mor, mot, oar, oat, oot, ora, ore, ort, ram, rat, rem, ret, roe, rom, rot, tae, tam, tao, tar, tea, toe, tom, too, tor.

-5 letters: ae, am, ar, at, em, er, et, ma, me, mo, oe, om, or, re, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-o-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: amoretto, anteroom, moderato, roommate, tearooms.

 

+2 letters: amorettos, anterooms, astrodome, moderator, moderatos, motorcade, protonema, roommates, stateroom, toolmaker.

 

+3 letters: aeronomist, astrodomes, astronomer, foretopman, gastronome, heteroatom, homopteran, keratotomy, meliorator, mesothorax, moderation, moderators, motorcaded, motorcades, portamento, promotable, protonemal, staterooms, toolmakers.

 

+4 letters: aeronomists, ameliorator, astronomers, astronomies, autoerotism, axonometric, bloodstream, comfortable, commemorate, commentator, compensator, deformation, demodulator, denominator, dermatology, embrocation, enamoration, footlambert, gametophore, gastronomes, heteroatoms, homopterans, lepromatous, melioration, meliorators, meteoroidal, moderations, motherboard, motorboater, nomenclator, nonmonetary, nontemporal, ostracoderm, ovariectomy, portamentos, proctodaeum, protonemata, reformation, reformatory, rodomontade, spermatozoa, tamperproof, thromboxane, tracheotomy, trypanosome.

 

+5 letters: amelioration, ameliorators, amelioratory, atheromatous, autoerotisms, bloodstreams, chromonemata, commemorated, commemorates, commemorator, commendatory, commentators, compensators, compensatory, condemnatory, conglomerate, contemplator, contemporary, craniotomies, deformations, demodulators, demonstrator, denominators, dermatologic, embrocations, enamorations, enantiomorph, enterostomal, footlamberts, gametophores, gastronomies, headforemost, heterogamous, immoderation, impersonator, keratotomies, laparotomies, macrocytoses, macropterous, meliorations, memorization, mesothoraces, mesothoracic, mesothoraxes, metamorphose, metrological, metronomical, metropolitan, midafternoon, motherboards, motoneuronal, motorboaters, neuroanatomy, nomenclators, nonnormative, nontemporals, normothermia, olfactometer, operationism, osmolarities, osteosarcoma, ostracoderms, ovariotomies, overdominant, overornament, parathormone, performatory, pneumothorax, preformation, proctodaeums, protonematal, reformations, remonstrator, remotivation, renomination, rheumatology, rhodomontade, rodomontades, sarcomatoses, schoolmaster, somatopleure, spermatozoal, spermatozoan, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, stonemasonry, stromatolite, thromboxanes, tomographies, tracheostomy, trypanosomes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tearoom


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 61 72 6F 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0061 0072 006F 006F 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54716784818179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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