teas

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of tea.

   The café offers a range of herbal teas alongside its coffees.

   Green and black teas come from the same plant.

   Note

   Here tea stops being a mass noun and becomes something you can count. The plural names kinds: varieties of the plant or its leaves, as in green and black teas, or the many other infusions sold as tea. Servings count too. The singular covers the drink or leaf in general, so the plural always signals more than one sort or cup. The same spelling also serves the verb's present form.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of tea.

   Note

   The verb behind this form takes two constructions. Without an object it means drinking tea or taking the light afternoon meal, as in she teas in the garden. With an object it means serving tea to someone, as in she teas her guests. Because it is spelled exactly like the plural noun, only the sentence tells them apart: a subject comes before the verb, and an object or a place follows it.

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