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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teatime
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And by the time she returned it would be six or six thirty. Teatime!
▪ By teatime, Landless was well pleased with his day's work and the careful planning which had gone into it.
▪ Do you spend quality time with your youngsters at teatime, read to them, play with them?
▪ The result looked like a misshapen, over-sized hamburger which we ate at teatime, and all agreed was absolutely delicious.
Wiktionary
teatime

n. (context chiefly British English) the traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

WordNet
teatime

n. a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; "an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea" [syn: tea, afternoon tea]

Usage examples of "teatime".

POLICE COMB ISOLATED DALE Dogs in manhunt for missing girl By a Staff Reporter Police with tracker dogs were today hunting for a 13-year-old girl missing from her home in the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale since yesterday teatime.

They decided on a frivolous chintz-covered cushion, beribboned and lace-edged, smelling delightfully of the lavender and rose leaves with which it was stuffed and by then, having wasted a great deal of time in almost every department, it was teatime.

The Visitors were regaled with tiny sandwiches and petits fours at teatime, pheasant under glass and filets mignons for dinner, and chocolates on the pillow at night.

Teatime, Secretary, Flaxborough and Eastern Counties Charities Alliance, 31 St Anne’s Gate, Flaxborough.

He was wearing bicycle clips and looked, Miss Teatime thought, rather like an ill nourished starling.

On the back of the range stood the basin of what would be clotted cream by teatime, simmering beside the soup pot.

A very short peremptory service held in monasteries prior to teatime to offer thanks for the benediction of digestive biscuits.

Miss Teatime decided that they had surgical connotations: she noted iodine (for cuts), picric acid (burns), and gentian violet (athlete’.

As Nanny Ogg would put it, when it’s teatime in Genua it’s Tuesday over here .

As Nanny Ogg would put it, when it's teatime in Genua it's Tuesday over here .

The triumph of the Ice Giants, the Apocralypse, the Teatime of the Gods, the whole thing.

She jingled her coin bag, which held the money the dwarf jewelsmith had advanced her against the rest of her teatime jewel robbery.

It was while Miss Teatime was delightedly savouring this combination that she noticed, propped casually against the low brass fender, a pair of well worn leather slippers.

Forgive my being forthright—presumptuous, I fear, was my father’s word for it—Sir William Teatime, the surgeon, you know—but it did occur to me that a research grant might appropriately be made to Moldham Meres Laboratories, in view of the parallel nature of our work in geriatrics.

Open nightly to any resident from eight till ten on weekdays, and from teatime onwards, Saturday and Sunday: as formal as a ducal drawing room, with its matching three-piece suite and antimacassars (made by the proprietress herself), its mahogany standard lamp with tasselled shade, its row of grinning Toby jugs, precisely lined above its freezing hearth.