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filter coffee

filter coffee noun: brewed coffee; made with water strained through a filter holding the coffee.

Noun

filter coffee (uncountable)

  1. Brewed coffee; made with water strained through a filter holding the coffee.
    • […]and ‘treat ourselves’ (we had somehow picked up our mothers’ vocabulary of post-war abstention) to a filter coffee, which we regarded as the last word in French cool.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19
  2. (India, particularly South India) Indian filter coffee; a stronger blend made with milk, chicory and coffee percolated through a metal filter and served in a cup with a small, bowl-like saucer for cooling.

filter coffee meaning in Malay

filter coffee in Malay

brewed coffee
kopi tenggek

Questions about filter coffee

What does filter coffee mean?
Filter coffee means brewed coffee; made with water strained through a filter holding the coffee.
What is filter coffee in Malay?
Filter coffee in Malay is kopi tenggek. See Filter coffee meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is filter coffee?
Filter coffee is a noun.

Words near filter coffee in the dictionary

  1. filter bubbles
  2. filter cake
  3. filter cakes
  4. filter card
  5. filter cards
  6. filter coffee
  7. filter down
  8. filter feeder
  9. filter feeders
  10. filter funnel
  11. filter funnels

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