coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒf.i/
note: Conservative, Received Pronunciation, dated
ipa: /ˈkɔː.fɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɔ.fi/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.fi/
ipa: /ˈkɒ.fi/
ipa: /ˈkoə.fi/
homophone: coughy
rhymes: -ɒfi
rhymes: -ɔːfi
Forms: form: coffee [from 1598]
form: coffees
form: coffée
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
Ottoman Turkish قهوهbor.
Italian caffèbor.
Dutch koffiebor.
English coffee
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
Senses: examples: text: He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.
text: The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:
text: VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.
ref: 1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
ref: 1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137:
text: "He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." / "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" / "This morning, before father went downtown." / Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: […]a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
examples: text: As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one.
ref: 2008 April 12, Agnes Poirier, The Guardian:
glosses: A serving of this beverage.
glosses: The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
glosses: The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
glosses: A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
glosses: A pale brown color, like that of milk coffee.
examples: text: He did not stay for coffee.
glosses: The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
Synonyms: word: color
word: coffee
word: jamoke
word: java
word: joe
Hypernyms: word: beverage
Hyponyms: word: arabica
word: caffè americano
word: caffè corretto
word: caffè crème
word: caffè freddo
word: caffè macchiato
word: cappuccino
word: espresso
word: latte
word: latte macchiato
word: macchiato
word: mocha
word: mochaccino
Derived terms: anticoffee
Arabian coffee
black coffee
bulletproof coffee
calypso coffee
chicory coffee
civet coffee
coffee-and
coffee and cake
coffee and cakes
coffee au lait
coffee bag
coffee bar
coffee bean
coffeeberry
coffee berry
coffee bowl
coffee break
coffee bush
coffee cabinet
coffee cake
Coffee Club Island
coffee culture
coffee-cup
coffee cup
coffee essence
coffee extract
coffee-glass
coffee glass
coffee grinder
coffee ground
coffee grounds
coffee ground vomiting
coffee ground vomitus
coffeegrower
coffeegrowing
coffeehead
coffeeholic
coffee house
coffee-house
coffeehouse
coffee-kettle
coffee klatch
coffee-klatch
coffee-klatsch
coffee klatsch
coffee leaf rust
coffeeless
coffeelike
coffee liqueur
coffee machine
coffeemaker
coffee maker
coffee-maker
coffeemaking
coffee making
coffee man
coffeeman
coffee-man
coffee milk
coffee-mill
coffee mill
coffee moffie
coffee money
coffee morning
coffee palace
coffee pause
coffee plunger
coffee pod
coffee pot
coffee-pot
coffee potful
coffee-potful
coffee ring
coffee roll
coffeeroom
coffee-room
coffee room
coffee royal
coffee rust
coffee senna
coffee shop
coffee snake
coffee spoon
coffee syrup
coffee table
coffee-table book
coffee table book
coffee talk
coffeetime
coffeetini
coffee tree
coffee up
Coffeeville
coffeeware
coffeewoman
coffolate
cold-brew coffee
cold brew coffee
cold coffee
cowboy coffee
cream in one's coffee
cup of coffee
dalgona coffee
dandelion coffee
drip coffee
egg coffee
filter coffee
French coffee
Gaelic coffee
iced coffee
instant coffee
Irish coffee
Kentucky coffeetree
Mogdad coffee
noncoffee
power coffee
regular coffee
salt coffee
Scotch coffee
specialty coffee
suspended coffee
that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee
third-wave coffee
Turkish coffee
variegated coffee bug
Vietnamese coffee
wake up and smell the coffee
white coffee
without coffee
Related terms: word: caffeine
word: kaffeeklatsch
word: :Category:Coffee