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teaspoon

  • noun
  • /ˈtiːˌspuːn/

A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.

Other meanings

  1. A unit of measure, equivalent to one-third of a tablespoon or roughly five milliliters.

A kind of

  • spoon

Example sentences

  • “I said I needed a tablespoon, not a teaspoon.”

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This definition is adapted from “teaspoon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.