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coffee house

coffee house is the alternative form of coffeehouse.

Meaning of coffeehouse

Noun

coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)

  1. An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
    • […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and...1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin; London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3
    Synonyms:
    coffee shop

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Forms of coffee house

pluralcoffee houses

Questions about coffee house

What is coffee house the alternative form of?
Coffee house is the alternative form of coffeehouse.

Words near coffee house in the dictionary

  1. coffee ground
  2. coffee ground vomit
  3. coffee ground vomiting
  4. coffee ground vomitus
  5. coffee grounds
  6. coffee house
  7. coffee houses
  8. coffee klatch
  9. coffee klatched
  10. coffee klatches
  11. coffee klatching

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