afternoon tea

Questions about afternoon tea

What is another word for afternoon tea?

It depends which afternoon tea you mean. In the sense “a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes”, the synonyms are tea, teatime. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of afternoon tea?

WordNet records no antonym for afternoon tea. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for afternoon tea come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of afternoon tea

• Full entry for afternoon teaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for afternoon teaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.