coffee shop

English

Alternative forms

• coffeeshop

Etymology

From coffee +‎ shop.

Pronunciation

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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 [...].

   • 2025 January 21, Vivian Song, “Specialty Coffee Shops and Parisian Cafes”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Over time, the concern is that the cafe’s role as the heart of Parisian society will become obsolete, Mr. Fontaine said, as the younger generation turns to the coffee shop.

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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• coffice

Descendants

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

Translations

café — see café

See also

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