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COFFEE HOUSE

Specialty Definition: COFFEE HOUSE

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Dream Interpretation

To see or visit a coffee house in your dreams, foretells that you will unwisely entertain friendly relations with persons known to be your enemies. Designing women may intrigue against your morality and possessions. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Slang in 1811

COFFEE HOUSE. A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Synonyms within Context: COFFEE HOUSE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COFFEE HOUSE

Specialty definitions using "COFFEE HOUSE": Rose Sunday. (references)

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Modern Usage: COFFEE HOUSE

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Movie/TV Titles

Once Upon a Coffee House (1965)

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

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Commercial Usage: COFFEE HOUSE

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Books

  • From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: COFFEE HOUSE

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Photo Album: COFFEE HOUSE

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Arab leisure in a coffee house of Mosul. Credit: Library of Congress.

The London coffee house / THM. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coffee house in Selma, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Tontine Coffee House, Wall & Water Streets, about 1797 / W.M. Aikman, sculpt ; Francis Guy, pinxt. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COFFEE HOUSE

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 house

210

coffee house palm springs

14

coffee house picture

6

open a coffee house

6

coffee house seeker

5

ccs coffee house

5

coffee house international

4

city coffee house kansas

3

coffee house irish

3

coffee house island long

3

city coffee house new york

3

coffee house love true

2

city coffee house steel

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

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Modern Translation: COFFEE HOUSE

Language Translations for "COFFEE HOUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

kavárna (café, cafe, coffee palace, coffee room, coffeehouse, tearoom). (various references)

   

German

  

Kaffeehaus (coffeehouse). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

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

   

Hungarian

  

kávéház (café, cafe, coffee palace, coffee shop). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

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

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

コー'ーハウス . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeecay ousehay

   

Portuguese

  

botequim (bar, café, pub, snack bar, tavern). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cafenea (café). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kaffeservering, kaffehus (coffee palace). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кафе (cafй, coffee room), кав'ярня (cafй). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COFFEE HOUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coffeehouse.

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

-4 letters: coffees.

-5 letters: cheese, choose, chouse, chuffs, coffee, cooees, echoes, effuse, fescue, fucose, ouches.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-f-h-o-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: coffeehouses.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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