starbucks
/ˈstɑɹˌbʌks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A widespread chain of coffee shops.
Example Sentences
- "Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe."
- "Consider the Starbucks effect in the slogans written up recently in Fast Company magazine, where companies from various sectors now aspire to be the 'Starbucks of their respective industry': ..."
- "On my three-block walk to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine."
- "Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.”"
- "Many people began to wonder whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other."
- "Said the CEO of the nearly 500-plus store Caribou Coffee chain, “I got into the business because of what they [Starbucks] created.” In China, a small chain, Real Brewed Tea, aims to be “the Starbucks of tea.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Norse stor Old Norse bekkr English Starbeck English Starbuck English -'s English -s English Starbucks From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɑɹˌbʌks/
- British English: /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/