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Meaning of teatime | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

British, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Vesperbrot
Suomi teehetki
Français heure du thé
Italiano ora del tè
Polski podwieczorek
Türkçe çay saati

Examples

“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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