Teatime

Definition: Teatime

Teatime

Noun

1. (British) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; "an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea".

Date "teatime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1853. (references)

Synonyms: Teatime

Synonyms: afternoon tea (n), tea (n). (additional references)

Teatime may refer to:

a "tea break" during which tea may be drunk
or, more commonly, high tea, Afternoon Tea or just Tea, a mid-afternoon or early evening meal - see high tea

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well, our Captain is British, sir. You know how the British are. After a little action, they like to wash up before teatime. (Sahara; writing credit: David Phillips)
Movie/TV Titles	Teatime with John (2003)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Teatime in the Northwest (Northwest Gourmet Guides, 3rd Edition) (reference) Teatime Piglet (Phone Friends) (reference) Teatime Treats (reference) Teatime Treats: Recipes to Enjoy With Afternoon Tea (reference) Teatime With Emma Buttersnap (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Teatime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Teatime" is used about 104 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	104	31,955

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.

Language		Translations for "teatime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Italian		ora di tè. (various references)

Manx		traa tey. (various references)

Pig Latin		eatimetay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "teatime": teatimes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Teatime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shetima, tatemae, teetime, teosinte, teratoma, Tzevaim. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-t-t"
	-1 letter: metate.
	-2 letters: matte.
	-3 letters: amie, emit, item, mate, matt, meat, meet, meta, mete, mite, mitt, tame, tate, team, teat, teem, time.
	-4 letters: aim, ait, ami, ate, att, eat, eme, eta, mae, mat, met, tae, tam, tat, tea, tee, tet, tie, tit.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, am, at, em, et, it, ma, me, mi, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-t-t"
	+1 letter: estimate, hematite, meatiest, meditate, teatimes.
	+2 letters: aftertime, altimeter, emittance, estaminet, estimated, estimates, haematite, hematites, impetrate, magnetite, meditated, meditates, pegmatite, semimatte, steamiest, taximeter, terminate, timetable.
	+3 letters: aftertimes, altimeters, antiemetic, detainment, dimethoate, emittances, empathetic, entailment, estaminets, estimative, haematites, impetrated, impetrates, legitimate, littermate, magnetites, maisonette, marionette, martensite, meditative, metabolite, metaethics, metathesis, metathetic, mistreated, pegmatites, readmitted, reestimate, remittable, remittance, remotivate, streamiest, taximeters, terminated, terminates, tetrameric, tiemannite, timetables.
	+4 letters: actinometer, altimetries, amethystine, antiemetics, attempering, cementation, detainments, determinant, determinate, detrainment, detrimental, dilatometer, dimethoates, domesticate, edutainment, entailments, entrainment, exterminate, guesstimate, harvesttime, intemperate, legitimated, legitimates, littermates, maisonettes, marionettes, marquisette, martensites, maternities, mathematize, mentalities, metabolites, metacentric, metaethical, metagenetic, metastasize, misestimate, penultimate, preadmitted, premeditate, reestimated, reestimates, remittances, remotivated, remotivates, restimulate, sentimental, steamfitter, systematise, systematize, teetotalism, terminative, termitaries, theorematic, tiemannites, witenagemot.
	+5 letters: actinometers, actinomycete, aestheticism, amphitheater, anathematize, astrometries, augmentative, bathymetries, cementations, chastisement, committeeman, dermatitides, dermatitises, determinants, determinator, detrainments, detrimentals, dilatometers, distemperate, domesticated, domesticates, edutainments, entrainments, exanthematic, exterminated, exterminates, exterminator, fermentation, fermentative, guesstimated, guesstimates, harvesttimes, hereditament, illegitimate, intermediate, intermontane, intimateness, keratotomies, legitimately, legitimatize, marquisettes, mastectomies, mathematized, mathematizes, meditatively, meristematic, metacentrics, metastasized, metastasizes, metathetical, meteoritical, misestimated, misestimates, misstatement, mistreatment, multifaceted, nitromethane, overestimate, premeditated, premeditates, premeditator, reattempting, reestimating, restimulated, restimulates, segmentation, semiliterate, steamfitters, systematised, systematises, systematized, systematizer, systematizes, teetotalisms, ultimateness, witenagemote, witenagemots.
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