high tea

1. 1.

   substantial early evening meal including tea

   Broaderdinner

   United Kingdom

Questions about high tea

What does high tea mean?

high tea means "substantial early evening meal including tea".

Is high tea a common word?

high tea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.