Dictionaries › English

coffee

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfi/

The English word “coffee” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
  2. A serving of this beverage.
  3. The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
  4. The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
  5. A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
  6. A pale brown color, like that of milky coffee.
  7. The end of a meal, when coffee is served.

adjective

  1. Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
  2. Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.

verb

  1. To drink coffee.
  2. To give coffee to.

Etymology

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.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “coffee” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.