Coffee Shop

  

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Coffee Shop

Definition: Coffee Shop

Coffee Shop

Noun

1. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Coffee Shop

Synonyms: cafe (n), coffee bar (n), coffeehouse (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Coffee Shop

Specialty definitions using "coffee shop": coffee-urn attendantfountain dispenser, FOUNTAIN SERVERice cream dispensersoda clerk, soda dispenser. (references)

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Modern Usage: Coffee Shop

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You can get them for free at the coffee shop in those metal cans. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Coffee Shop

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Coffee Shop Philosophy (reference)

  • Auxiliary Gift and Coffee Shop Management. (reference)

  • Coffee Shop Theology: Translating Doctrinal Jargon into Everyday Life (reference)

  • Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture (reference)

  • Me 'n God in the Coffee Shop (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Coffee Shop

Photos:
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Photo Album: Coffee Shop

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A Greek steelworker in a coffee shop, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Proprietor of a Greek coffee shop, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pepe's coffee shop, where the town's business is transacted. Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boys in the town in front of Greek coffee shop. Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Workers at American Bridge Company in front of Greek coffee shop. Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hotel Otesaga, Cooperstown, New York. Coffee shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Terrace Restaurant, Fred Harvey Corp., Capital Ct., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coffee shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nevele Hotel, Ellenville, New York. Coffee shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arawak Hotel, Jamaica, British West Indies. Coffee shop. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coffee Shop

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Civil Liberties

Burma

In December 1999, U Than Chaun, the owner of a coffee shop in Shwe Coo township of Kachin State, was arrested and sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment with hard labor for having the radio in his coffee shop tuned to Voice of America. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Opposite Labone Coffee Shop, Labone. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coffee Shop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coffee shop

961

amsterdam coffee shop

176

coffee shop franchise

40

starting a coffee shop

31

open a coffee shop

24

opening a coffee shop

20

coffee shop start up

7

coffee shop square union

6

amsterdam coffee shop test

4

coffee shop starbuck

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coffee Shop

Language Translations for "coffee shop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

'啡館 (cafe). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

koffiebar. (various references)

   

French

  

buffet. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καφενείο (cafι, coffee house, coffeehouse). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kávézó (café, cafe, coffee room), kávéház (café, cafe, coffee house, coffee palace). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

コー'ーの木 (coffee, coffee break, coffee float, coffee grinder, coffee house, coffee mill, coffee stand, coffee syrup, coffee tree). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

コー'ーショップ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeecay opshay

   

Russian 

  

кафе (cafй, cafe, coffee palace, coffee room, coffeehouse, coffee-house, coffee-room, teahouse, tea-shop), буфет (buffet, canteen, china closet, china-closet, jam closet, lunch counter, luncheonette, refreshment room, sideboard, snack bar, snack-bar). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

bar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kaffeställe, kaffeaffär. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ร้านกาแฟ (cafe, caff, coffeehouse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kafeterya (cafeteria, coffee bar), büfe (buffet, commissary, cupboard, dresser, kiosk, kiosque, lunch counter, refreshment room, sideboard, soda fountain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coffee Shop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-f-h-o-o-p-s"

-3 letters: coffees, pooches.

-4 letters: cheeps, choose, coffee, cooees, echoes, epochs, speech.

-5 letters: cepes, cheep, chefs, chops, chose, coffs, cohos, cooee, coofs, coops, copes, copse, eches, echos, epoch, feces, hoofs, hoops, hopes, pechs, pooch, poofs, poohs, scoff, scoop, scope, sheep, spoof.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coffee Shop


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 66 66 65 65      53 68 6F 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0066 0066 0065 0065      0053 0068 006F 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378172727171253748182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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