: a small restaurant or café that typically serves a variety of teas as well as coffee and light meals
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Admission to the tearoom was limited to certain categories of people.
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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
For other girls, the clubs led them into business, for example as owners of tearooms, as well into work as journalists and librarians.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 July 2025
The tearoom’s owner, that Lenormand woman, was the only one who could provide a cure.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 24 July 2025
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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
For other girls, the clubs led them into business, for example as owners of tearooms, as well into work as journalists and librarians.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 July 2025
The tearoom’s owner, that Lenormand woman, was the only one who could provide a cure.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 24 July 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 18 Oct. 2025.
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tearoom
noun
tea·room
ˈtē-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a restaurant serving light meals
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