According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
BECKON
beckon, wave
(verb) signal with the hands or nod; “She waved to her friends”; “He waved his hand hospitably”
beckon
(verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture
beckon
(verb) appear inviting; “The shop window decorations beckoned”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
beckon (third-person singular simple present beckons, present participle beckoning, simple past and past participle beckoned)
(ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
(ambitransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
Noun
beckon (plural beckons)
A sign made without words; a beck.
A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
Source: Wiktionary
Beck"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beckoned (p. pr. & vb. n. Beckoning.]
Definition: To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. His distant friends, he beckons near. Dryden. It beckons you to go away with it. Shak.
Beck"on, n.
Definition: A sign made without words; a beck. "At the first beckon." Bolingbroke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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