an open-air restaurant that serves tea and light refreshments
2.
a tea plantation
tea garden in American English
noun
a tea plantation
Word origin
[1795–1805]This word is first recorded in the period 1795–1805. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baseball, mirage, sharpshooter, steeplechase, unilateral
Examples of 'tea garden' in a sentence
tea garden
Its tea garden is an especially lovely place to canoodle.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This was where people who came to the tea gardens used to hang their coats.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Coffee houses and tea gardens were all the rage, places where polite society gathered to sip hot drinks and to gossip.