coffee shop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.57 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
noun
A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
noun
Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.
Example Sentences
- "He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends."
- ""From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...]."
- "Since the early 2010s, when the first wave of niche coffee shops opened in France, their number has risen 74 percent across the country to 3,500, with a new coffeehouse now opening every week, according to Collectif Café, a trade association. […] This morning stop is for good company, but for good caffeine, Ms. Bantman then picks up a €3 cortado or piccolo, to go, from her regular coffee shop before heading to the office. […] Over time, the concern is that the cafe’s role as the heart of Parisian society will become obsolete, Mr. Fontaine said, as the younger generation turns to the coffee shop."