tea
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
iced tea is a cooling drink
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
Sense 2 noun
a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea
Types & categories
- meal hypernym
Related & opposite
- Great Britain domain region
Sense 3 noun
a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves
tea has fragrant white flowers
Types & categories
- bush hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Camellia member holonym
- tea leaf part meronym
Sense 4 noun
a reception or party at which tea is served
we met at the Dean's tea for newcomers
Types & categories
- reception hypernym
Sense 5 noun
dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea
the store shelves held many different kinds of tea
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- Camellia sinensis part holonym
- tea substance holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | tea leaf |
| 1 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | caffeine |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | beverage |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cambric tea |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cuppa |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | herb tea |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ice tea |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sun tea |
| 2 | domain region | Related & opposite | Great Britain |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | meal |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Camellia |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | tea leaf |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bush |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | reception |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Camellia sinensis |
| 5 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | tea |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | herb |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | tea bag |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | black tea |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | green tea |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | oolong |