"high tea" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: haai¹ ti¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hāai tī [Cantonese, Yale], haai¹ ti¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], hai¹ ti¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Etymology: From English high tea. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|high tea}} English high tea Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} high tea
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) luxurious, formal afternoon tea Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong
    Sense id: en-high_tea-zh-noun-HAW64wKA Categories (other): Hong Kong Cantonese, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms written in foreign scripts Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of Chinese terms written in foreign scripts: 73 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hi tea

Verb [Chinese]

IPA: /haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: haai¹ ti¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hāai tī [Cantonese, Yale], haai¹ ti¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], hai¹ ti¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] Forms: high⫽tea [canonical]
Etymology: From English high tea. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|high tea}} English high tea Head templates: {{zh-verb|type=vo4}} high⫽tea (verb-object)
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to enjoy afternoon tea (especially a luxurious one) Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong, verb-object
    Sense id: en-high_tea-zh-verb-fCMKIE5X Categories (other): Hong Kong Cantonese
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hi tea

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌhʌɪ ˈtiː/ [UK] Audio: EN-AU ck1 high tea.ogg [Australia] Forms: high teas [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} high tea (countable and uncountable, plural high teas)
  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A late afternoon or early evening meal, typically consisting of a cooked dish with bread and butter and tea. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-high_tea-en-noun-M5nYRugd Categories (other): Australian English, British English, New Zealand English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 63 37 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 53 47
  2. (US) Formal afternoon tea. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Tea
    Sense id: en-high_tea-en-noun-oCz3QZ6B Disambiguation of Tea: 15 85 Categories (other): American English, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 53 47

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for high tea meaning in All languages combined (5.6kB)

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