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coffee-maker

coffee-maker is the alternative spelling of coffeemaker.

Meaning of coffeemaker

Noun

coffeemaker (plural coffeemakers)

  1. A person who makes coffee.
    • Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.1681, Thomas De Laune, The Present State of London, page 113
  2. Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.
    • There is also the Fountain coffee-maker, in which a body of steam, passing upwards through the body of ground coffee, carries over the infusion, which collects in a chamber.1883, A Cup of Coffee, London, page 79
    Synonyms:
    coffee machine

Forms of coffee-maker

pluralcoffee-makers

Questions about coffee-maker

What is coffee-maker the alternative spelling of?
Coffee-maker is the alternative spelling of coffeemaker.

Words near coffee-maker in the dictionary

  1. coffee-klatched
  2. coffee-klatches
  3. coffee-klatching
  4. coffee-klatsch
  5. coffee-klatsches
  6. coffee-maker
  7. coffee-makers
  8. coffee-man
  9. coffee-men
  10. coffee-mill
  11. coffee-mills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coffee-maker (page history and authors); coffeemaker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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