Coffeehouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coffeehouse is a noun meaning An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
Meaning
An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
More Meanings
- To distract a game player by chattering.
Example Sentences
A stranger picked up the tab for the coffee order of the next customer in the drive-through line at a Tim Hortons coffeehouse in Winnipeg, Canada.
In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
[…] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.
Word Forms
- coffeehouses
- coffee house
- coffee-house
- coffeehousing
- coffeehoused
Synonyms for coffeehouse
Depending on context, synonyms include cafe.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cafe, diner, espresso, coffee, latte, coffee house.
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