java
/ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
name
JavaScript (by confusion with Java).
noun
A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
Example Sentences
- "The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking."
- "In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?"
- "I created an alert window using java script, but I found the fonts too small. Is there a way of controling font size and style when java alert window opens."
- "45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory."
- "The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yew- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *yéwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.? Proto-Austronesian *zawa Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.? Old Javanese jawa Old Javanese Jawa Javanese Jawabor. English Java Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: यव-द्वीप
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Colloquial