Tearoom is an English word with synonyms like teahouse or restaurant. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tearoom meaning
- A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
- A public lavatory, especially (US, gay slang, dated) as a meeting place for gay men.
- A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.
Synonyms of Tearoom
Using Tearoom
- The main meaning on this page is: A café which serves tea, usually with light food. | A public lavatory, especially (US, gay slang, dated) as a meeting place for gay men. | A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.
- Useful related words include: teashop, teahouse, tea parlor, tea parlour.
- In the example corpus, tearoom often appears in combinations such as: the tearoom, tearoom and, tearoom in.
Context around Tearoom
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tearoom
- In this selection, "tearoom" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, orchard, cover, vintage, premises, type and serves stand out and add context to how "tearoom" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 70 cover tearoom and a cosy tearoom type place. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tearoom" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tearoom
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And a local tearoom is now delivering afternoon tea to folk around Stonehaven. (13 words)
The Oak Room was last used as a tearoom in the early 1950s. (13 words)
The tearoom serves homemade cake and treats as well as hot and cold drinks. (14 words)
The line 'we want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now', drunkenly delivered by Richard E Grant in the Penrith tearoom, was voted the third favourite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans. (46 words)
A statement, attributed to owners David and Julie Creasey, was posted on the tearoom's Facebook page, informing customers of the decision to close the tearoom and explaining the "months of uncertainty, worry and constant stress" they had been through. (40 words)
Husband and wife team, Dottie and Russell Blakey, from Upwell, will be jointly running the existing pub and tearoom with long standing landlady Kay Butler who has been at the helm of the pub for the past six years. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A statement, attributed to owners David and Julie Creasey, was posted on the tearoom's Facebook page, informing customers of the decision to close the tearoom and explaining the "months of uncertainty, worry and constant stress" they had been through.
Another cafe that has helped to grow the offering in Rainford is Alpine Kitchen, which opened in the former Cherry Orchard Tearoom premises back in March.
Husband and wife team, Dottie and Russell Blakey, from Upwell, will be jointly running the existing pub and tearoom with long standing landlady Kay Butler who has been at the helm of the pub for the past six years.
She added: "Kate is chiefly remembered for pioneering the development of the tearoom in Glasgow.
The award-winning museum’s premises has an office, exhibiting halls, an exhibition workshop, professor’s study, crystal cave, and a 70-cover tearoom.
The cafe was established back in 2010 and experienced a change of ownership in March 2017 when mother and daughter Lucy and Sharon Fisher took the reins of the business and made it into the tearoom.
A tearoom on the other side of the river also beckoned to us, but I decided on trying the Board solely because I have an interesting piece of trivia about how it probably came by its name.
Emily Armstrong, who took over the vintage tearoom at Easter time last year, saw the perfect opportunity to host a Bridgerton-themed afternoon tea at the retro eatery – particularly as she is a fan of the show herself.
I was surprised at how busy the tearoom was mid-week but took it as a promising sign.
On-site there's also a tearoom where hot and cold drinks are served as well as light lunches and cakes.
Rie McClenny grew up in southwestern Japan with family members who not only loved to cook but, as the owners of a tearoom and cafe in their small seaside city, were pretty darn good at it.
The inside of the tearoom will also be redesigned and more items will be added to the menu – with treats for dogs also on offer.
The line 'we want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now', drunkenly delivered by Richard E Grant in the Penrith tearoom, was voted the third favourite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans.
There's no shortage of places for but I had a particular hankering for a cosy, tearoom type place selling cake by the wedge.
The tearoom serves homemade cake and treats as well as hot and cold drinks.
What’s more, the tearoom is perfect for a sit down, sandwiches and some afternoon tea.
And a local tearoom is now delivering afternoon tea to folk around Stonehaven.
The Oak Room was last used as a tearoom in the early 1950s.
When the tearoom interiors were removed from the Ingram Street property in 1971 every piece of panelling was given a reference number to help piece the jigsaw back together in the future.
On August 22, Michelle announced the closure on Facebook: "It is with great sadness that I must announce the Blitz Tearoom will be closing its doors on 3rd September 2018.
Common combinations with tearoom
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tearoom 10×
- tearoom and 3×
- tearoom in 2×
- tearoom on 2×
- tearoom was 2×
- tearoom will 2×
- tearoom is 2×