coffee-shop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Mr. H. and I, forgetting the Ramazan, went out to hunt for an iced sherbet; but all the coffee-shops were closed until sunset."
- "Over a snack of luncheon—snatched late and hastily at a little uncomfortable coffee-shop near the Griffin—Ronnie’s usual calm returned."
- "Anne showed great interest in the many Greek coffee-shops, stores, and cabarets, which occupied ancient two-story buildings. I explained to her that many of these coffee-shops are named after certain counties or districts in Greece and that the natives of those areas usually foregather in the coffee-shop named after their place of birth."
- "After his father died his mother ran a coffee-shop for dockers near the gates of the docks."
- "She laughs easily, wears no make-up, talks fast and seems effortlessly comfortable with people - even a homeless gent who comes into the coffee-shop demanding change, which she gives."
- "THE story goes that in 1957 Jay Pritzker was in a hotel coffee-shop called Fat Eddie's at a Los Angeles airport, and waiting for a flight."