Starbucks
UK/ˈstɑːˌbʌks//ˈstɑɹˌbʌks/
Starbucks proper noun: a widespread chain of coffee shops. Also the plural of Starbuck.
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Proper noun
Starbucks (plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)
- A widespread chain of coffee shops.
- Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe.2005 April 30, Melinda Newman, “Q&A”, in Billboard, number 18, page 31
- Consider the Starbucks effect in the slogans written up recently in Fast Company magazine, where companies from various sectors now aspire to be the 'Starbucks of their respective industry': ...2008, Andrew M. Jones, The Innovation Acid Test: Growth Through Design and Differentiation, →ISBN
Noun
Starbucks (countable and uncountable, plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)
- A coffee from Starbucks.
- I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose.2009, Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel, page 163
- One part-time sociologist made an even more damning indictment: “Calling yourself a coffee nerd while drinking Starbucks is like calling yourself a beer nerd while drinking Budweiser.”2009, Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 56
- Synonyms:
- Starbies
Also used as
Starbucks is also the plural of Starbuck.
Starbucks meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
Starbucks in Hindi
- chain of coffee shops
- स्टारबक्स sṭārbaks
Starbucks in Marathi
- chain of coffee shops
- स्टार्बक्स sṭārbaksa
Starbucks in Urdu
- chain of coffee shops
- سٹاربکس sṭārbaks
Starbucks in Bengali
- chain of coffee shops
- স্টারবাক্স sṭarbakśo
More languagesFewer languages
- Starbucks in Telugu
- స్టార్బక్స్ sṭārbaks
- Starbucks in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಬಕ್ಸ್ sṭārbaks
- Starbucks in Gujarati
- સ્ટાર્બક્સ sṭārbaks
- Starbucks in Sinhala
- ස්ටාර්බක්ස් sṭārbaks
- Starbucks in Tagalog
- Starbucks
- Starbucks in Arabic
- سْتَارْبَكْس stārbaks
- Starbucks in Persian
- استارباکس estârbâks
- Starbucks in Thai
- สตาร์บัคส์ sà-dtaa-bák
Examples of Starbucks in a sentence
- On my three-block walk to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine.2010, Michael Salvatore, {Between} Boyfriends, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 49:
- Companies now want to turn themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.”2013, Taylor Clark, Starbucked, →ISBN:
- Many people began to wonder whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other.2015, O. C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich, Linda Ferrell, Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases, 10th edition, Cengage Learning...
- Also returning is Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, an iced-drink topped with pumpkin cream cold foam and a dusting of pumpkin spice that Starbucks launched in 2019.2022 August 29, Jordan Valinsky, “Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte is coming back at a higher price”, in CNN Business:
Synonyms of Starbucks
Forms of Starbucks
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Starbuckses |
| plural | Starbucks |
| Noun | |
| plural | Starbuckses |
| plural | Starbucks |
Origin of Starbucks
From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.
Words formed from Starbucks
Questions about Starbucks
- What does Starbucks mean?
- Starbucks means a widespread chain of coffee shops.
- What is Starbucks in Hindi?
- Starbucks in Hindi is स्टारबक्स (sṭārbaks). See Starbucks meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Starbucks in a sentence?
- On my three-block walk to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine.
- What part of speech is Starbucks?
- Starbucks can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Starbucks?
- Starbucks is pronounced /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/ (UK).
Words near Starbucks in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Starbucks (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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