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.
DESERTION
desertion, abandonment, defection
(noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; “his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless”
abandonment, forsaking, desertion
(noun) the act of giving something up
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
desertion (countable and uncountable, plural desertions)
The act of deserting.
Anagrams
• detersion, enteroids, interdose
Source: Wiktionary
De*ser"tion, n. Etym: [L. desertio: cf. F. désertion.]
1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.
2. The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
3. Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency. The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
4 April 2025
GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
Coffee Trivia
