tete-a-tete

1. 1.

   involving two persons; intimately private

   “a tete-a-tete supper”

   “a head-to-head conversation”

   Synonymshead-to-head

   Similarprivate

Questions about tete-a-tete

What does tete-a-tete mean?

tete-a-tete means "a private conversation between two people". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tete-a-tete?

tete-a-tete has 4 syllables and divides as te-te--a--tete under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tete-a-tete?

Close synonyms include love seat, loveseat, vis-a-vis, head-to-head. 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 tete-a-tete a common word?

tete-a-tete 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.