tea ceremony

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   an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea

   Synonymschanoyu

   Broaderceremony

   Japan

Questions about tea ceremony

What does tea ceremony mean?

tea ceremony means "an ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea".

What is another word for tea ceremony?

Close synonyms include chanoyu. 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.

Is tea ceremony a common word?

tea ceremony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.