coffee shop

English

Alternative forms

• coffeeshop

Etymology

coffee +‎ shop

Noun

coffee shop (plural coffee shops)

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

   Synonyms: café, coffeehouse, diner

   • 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:

     "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].

2. A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee,‎ shop. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Descendants

• → Dutch: coffeeshop
• → Korean: 커피숍 (keopisyop)

Translations

café — see café

See also

• coffee bar
• coffee house
• teashop
• Thesaurus:pub