afternoon tea

1. 1.

   a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes

   “an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea”

   Synonymsteateatime

   Broadermeal

   United Kingdom

Questions about afternoon tea

What does afternoon tea mean?

afternoon tea means "a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes".

What is another word for afternoon tea?

Close synonyms include tea, teatime. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.