Coffee

/ˈkɒfi/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
2. (countable) 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 milk coffee.
7. The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
8. Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.

Example Sentences

He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.

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[…].

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.

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.

"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.

[…]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.

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.

He did not stay for coffee.

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Word Forms

• coffees
• coffée
• coffeeing
• coffeed
• coffee'd

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