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Definition: Coffee Shop |
Coffee ShopNoun1. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Coffee ShopSynonyms: cafe (n), coffee bar (n), coffeehouse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Coffee Shop |
| Specialty definitions using "coffee shop": coffee-urn attendant ♦ fountain dispenser, FOUNTAIN SERVER ♦ ice cream dispenser ♦ soda clerk, soda dispenser. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You can get them for free at the coffee shop in those metal cans. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 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) bar. (various references) kaffeställe, kaffeaffär. (various references) ร้านกาแฟ (cafe, caff, coffeehouse). (various references) kafeterya (cafeteria, coffee bar), büfe (buffet, commissary, cupboard, dresser, kiosk, kiosque, lunch counter, refreshment room, sideboard, soda fountain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 66 66 65 65      53 68 6F 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o f f e e   S h o p |
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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