coffeehouse
/kˈɔfihˌaʊs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.53 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
verb
To distract a game player by chattering.
Example Sentences
- "[…] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next."
- "In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges."
- "A stranger picked up the tab for the coffee order of the next customer in the drive-through line at a Tim Hortons coffeehouse in Winnipeg, Canada."
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor. Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor. Italian caffèbor. Dutch koffiebor. English coffee Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house English coffeehouse From coffee + house.
Inflected Forms
coffeehouses (plural)
coffee house (alternative)
coffee-house (alternative)
coffeehouses (present, singular)
coffeehousing (participle, present)
coffeehoused (participle, past)
coffeehoused (past)