Tiffin Definition

tĭfĭn
noun

Lunch.

Webster's New World
A meal at midday, especially in South Asia.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Tiffin

Noun

Singular:
tiffin
Plural:
tiffins

Origin of Tiffin

  • Short for tiffing gerund of tiff to sip

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Anglo-Indian

    From Wiktionary

Tiffin Sentence Examples

  • Leander and Tiffin beat Burway and Walton in the Fawley for junior quads.

  • He even manages to cool off in the sparkling waters of the Indian Ocean and take tiffin with sari-clad memsahibs.

  • The history of tiffin box carriers run parallel to the history of Mumbai 's development.

  • Mumbai 's tiffin carriers have achieved a level of service to which Western businesses can only aspire.

  • By an agreement made in 1907 the school of theology of Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pennsylvania; the theological school since 1898 had been in Philadelphia) and the Heidelberg Theological seminary (Tiffin, Ohio) united to form the Central Theological seminary of the German Reformed Church, which was established in Dayton in 1908.

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Words Starting With

TTITIF

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NINFIN

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Words Starting With T and Ending With N

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