Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
DENOMINATION
appellation, denomination, designation, appellative
(noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
denomination
(noun) a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; “he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations”
denomination
(noun) a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
denomination (countable and uncountable, plural denominations)
(uncountable) The act of naming or designating.
(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals
(countable) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious subgroup
(countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc
Hypernyms
• sect
Hyponyms
• order
Source: Wiktionary
De*nom`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. denominatio metonymy: cf. F. dénomination a naming.]
1. The act of naming or designating.
2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. Burke.
3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
Syn.
– Name; appellation; title. See Name.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PROSODIC
(adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
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