chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber
(noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color
coffee, java
(noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; “he ordered a cup of coffee”
coffee, coffee tree
(noun) any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Coffee (plural Coffees)
A surname.
Ellipsis of Coffee County.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Coffee is the 5585th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6223 individuals. Coffee is most common among White (68.52%) and Black/African American (23.78%) individuals.
coffee (countable and uncountable, plural coffees)
(uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
(countable) A serving of this beverage.
The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, misnamed ‘beans’ due to their shape.
The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
A pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
• coffee
• color
coffee (not comparable)
Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.
coffee (third-person singular simple present coffees, present participle coffeeing, simple past and past participle coffeed)
(intransitive) To drink coffee.
Source: Wiktionary
Cof"fee, n. Etym: [Turk. qahveh, Ar. qahuah wine, coffee, a decoction of berries. Cf. Café.]
1. The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.
2. The coffee tree.
Note: There are several species of the coffee tree, as, Coffea Arabica, C. occidentalis, and C. Liberica. The white, fragrant flowers grow in clusters at the root of the leaves, and the fruit is a red or purple cherrylike drupe, with sweet pulp, usually containing two pyrenes, commercially called "beans" or "berries".
3. The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry. They have in Turkey a drink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.
Note: The use of coffee is said to have been introduced into England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in Oxford and London. Coffee bug (Zoöl.), a species of scale insect (Lecanium coffæa), often very injurious to the coffee tree.
– Coffee rat (Zoöl.) See Musang.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 March 2025
(noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
