coffeehouse
coffeehouse noun: an establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
Noun
coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)
- 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
- In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012
- Synonyms:
- coffee shop
Verb
coffeehouse (third-person singular simple present coffeehouses, present participle coffeehousing, simple past and past participle coffeehoused)
- To distract a game player by chattering.
coffeehouse meaning in Hindi
coffeehouse in Hindi
- coffeehouse; café
- क़हवाघर qahvāghar, कॉफ़ीघर kŏfīghar, कॉफ़ीख़ाना kŏfīxānā
Examples of coffeehouse in a sentence
- The ubiquitous café is just a Frenchification of the old English coffeehouse, providing the ambiance of peaceful al fresco dining without actually moving any chairs outdoors.
- It just so happens that coffeehouses are particularly good places to Socratize.
- According to the whitebeards and coffeehouse celebrities, Mullah Abbas had always been there.
Synonyms of coffeehouse
Forms of coffeehouse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | coffeehouses |
| alternative form | coffee house |
| alternative form | coffee-house |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | coffeehouses |
| present participle | coffeehousing |
| past participle | coffeehoused |
| past | coffeehoused |
Origin of coffeehouse
From coffee + house.
Questions about coffeehouse
- What does coffeehouse mean?
- Coffeehouse means an establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
- What is coffeehouse in Hindi?
- Coffeehouse in Hindi is क़हवाघर (qahvāghar), कॉफ़ीघर (kŏfīghar), कॉफ़ीख़ाना (kŏfīxānā). See Coffeehouse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is coffeehouse?
- Coffeehouse can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of coffeehouse?
- The plural of coffeehouse is coffeehouses.
Words near coffeehouse in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coffeehouse (page history and authors); क़हवाघर (Hindi) (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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