Meaning

4 senses
  1. A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.

    He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends.

    a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold

  2. A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.

  3. (Malaysia, Singapore)Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).

  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.

Examples

126 sentences
  1. Tom works at a local coffee shop.

    Том працює у місцевій кав'ярні. — deniko

  2. Where is the coffee shop?

    Де кав'ярня? — deniko

    ruГде кафе? — sharptoothed

    deWo ist das Café? — virgil

  3. I entered a coffee shop.

    Я зайшов до кав'ярні. — mkazarian

    ruЯ вошел в кафе. — sharptoothed

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  4. This coffee shop is cozy.

    Ця кав'ярня затишна. — deniko

    ruЭто уютное кафе. — Balamax

    deDieses Café ist gemütlich. — kolonjano

  5. Is there a coffee shop nearby?

Origin

From coffee + shop. Sense 2 is from Dutch coffeeshop, a pseudo-anglicism of this term.

From coffee + shop. Sense 2 is from Dutch coffeeshop, a pseudo-anglicism of this term.

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Forms

plural: coffee shops

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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