coffeehouse

noun

cof·​fee·​house ˈkȯ-fē-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce coffeehouse (audio)
ˈkä-
: an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers

Examples of coffeehouse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The new coffeehouse will also have grab-and-go items, like a new beet salad. Brock Keeling, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024 Related Articles The coffeehouses have become Bay Area darlings in the pandemic era, but the fame of Yemen’s coffee beans goes back centuries. Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024 The coffeehouse chain is celebrating Valentine’s Day with two new drinks — including a colorful frappuccino. Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024 But first, breakfast… Start the morning by walking just a few blocks from the Beaufort Historic Inn to Common Ground to exchange the breakfast voucher for a chocolate cappuccino coffee muffin, the coffeehouse’s most popular menu item. Sallie Funderburk, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 Along with conversation, the coffeehouse offers coffee, tea, soups, sandwiches and pastries. Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024 Like Bolsheviks plotting in the coffeehouses of Zurich, right-wing instituteniks at the Heritage Foundation have drafted Project 2025, a gargantuan instruction manual and ideological manifesto for Trump 2.0. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023 Caffeine Crawl is back For the 11th year, the Caffeine Crawl will return to San Diego this weekend with choice of eight different tour routes around the city to sample brews at San Diego roasters and coffeehouses. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024 In 1969, a motorcycle-riding coffeehouse regular named Larry Norman released what many critics considered to be the first Christian rock album, Upon This Rock. Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1612, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of coffeehouse was in 1612

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“Coffeehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffeehouse. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

coffeehouse

noun
cof·​fee·​house ˈkȯ-fē-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce coffeehouse (audio)
ˈkäf-ē-
: a business that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that often serves as an informal club for its regular customers
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