coffeehouse

See also: coffee house and coffee-house

English

Alternative forms

• coffee house, coffee-house

Etymology

From coffee +‎ house.

Pronunciation

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Noun

coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)

1. An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.

   Synonym: coffee shop

   Hypernym: house

   • 1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin, London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3:

     […] 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.

Translations

café — see café

See also

• basket house
• coffee bar
• coffee shop