Definition/Meaning of tea

• English - Noun: tea ( countable and uncountable , plural teas ) ( uncountable ) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant , Camellia sinensis . Go to the supermarket and buy some tea . ( uncountable ) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water . Would you like some tea ? ( countable ) A variety of the tea plant . Darjeeling is a tea from India . ( uncountable ) By extension , any drink…
• English - Verb: tea ( third-person singular simple present teas , present participle teaing , simple past and past participle teaed ) To drink tea . To take afternoon tea (the light meal). 1877 , The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38) The wind was high and the hills ditto , and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we…
• English - Etymology: Circa 1650, from Dutch thee , from Min Nan 茶 ( tê ) (Amoy dialect), from Proto-Min, from Old Chinese , ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la ( “ leaf , tea ” ). Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company , who sourced their tea in Amoy; compare Malay teh along the same trade route . Ultimately cognate to chai , from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root;…
• English - Pronunciation: enPR: tē , IPA (key) : /tiː/ Rhymes: -iː Homophones: T , te , tee , ti
• English - References: ^ The World Atlas of Language Structures Online , “Chapter 138: Tea”, by Östen Dahl