tea lights

Small cup candles

Tea lights are small, squat candles in thin metal or plastic cups, designed to burn for a few hours.

The name comes from their traditional use warming teapots, but they now serve mainly as ambient lighting or decoration: She scattered tea lights around the bathtub.

Also spelled tealights.

Opposites
candle size and burn duration

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Self-supporting wax cylinders

altar candles · tapers · taper candles · memorial candles · torches

light source intensity and permanence

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Powerful wide-beam lamps

chandeliers · spotlights · halogen lamps · searchlights · stadium lights

lighting formality/grandeur

tea lightschandeliers

Ornate hanging light fixtures

candelabras · crystal chandeliers · sconces · floodlights · spotlights

Family

tealight, tealights

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G