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.
SYLLEPSIS
syllepsis
(noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)
(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
Coordinate term: zeugma
Hypernym: brachylogy
(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
Antonym: prolepsis
Source: Wiktionary
Syl*lep"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. sy`llhpsis a taking together, from syllable, n.]
1. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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