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black coffee

black coffee noun: coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.

black coffee: coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk
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Noun

black coffee (countable and uncountable, plural black coffees)

  1. Coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.
    • It wasn't enough. They'd be able to rouse her with black coffee.1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, pages 305–306
    • Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36
    Synonyms:
    café noir

black coffee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

black coffee in Hindi

coffee served without cream or milk
काली कोफ़ी kālī kofī

black coffee in Tamil

coffee served without cream or milk
கடுங்காப்பி kaṭuṅkāppi

black coffee in Urdu

coffee served without cream or milk
کالی کوفی kālī kofī

black coffee in Malayalam

coffee served without cream or milk
കട്ടൻ കാപ്പി kaṭṭaṉ kāppi
More languagesFewer languages
black coffee in Tagalog
kapeng itim
black coffee in Arabic
قَهْوَة سَوْدَاء qahwa sawdāʔ
black coffee in Malay
kopi o
black coffee in Indonesian
kopi pahit
black coffee in Thai
กาแฟดำ gaa-fɛɛ dam
black coffee in Vietnamese
cà phê đen

Synonyms of black coffee

Forms of black coffee

pluralblack coffees

Questions about black coffee

What does black coffee mean?
Black coffee means coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.
What is black coffee in Hindi?
Black coffee in Hindi is काली कोफ़ी (kālī kofī). See Black coffee meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is black coffee?
Black coffee is a noun.
What is the plural of black coffee?
The plural of black coffee is black coffees.

Words near black coffee in the dictionary

  1. black cock
  2. black cockatoo
  3. black cockatoos
  4. black cocks
  5. black cod
  6. black coffee
  7. black coffees
  8. black cohosh
  9. black cohoshes
  10. black colic
  11. black comedies

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