What is "tea"?

[size8jeans]

Will someone from England explain what "having tea" means? Tea here is simply a drink and not a meal.

[CountingRibs]

Here in England tea has like 2 meanings

Tea = A drink, as in like a cup of tea
Tea = Your third meal of the day, it is also known as dinner in some other countries though

Hope I have helped ya chick
xx

[size8jeans]

Ah yes. We call it dinner here, though some areas of the U.S. eat it eariler in the evening and call it supper. In the U.S. tea has only one meaning, "a cup of tea," a drink.

[abigailsweetie]

I get confused, my mum calls it supper, dad calls it Dinner and I call it Tea.

ARGH

[amywarren]

Here in the us, Tea is a drink.
I haven't heard anyone here call tea dinner or breakfast or whatever.

[skinnydip]

we call it dinner and tea in Australia