coffee shop

See also: coffee-shop and coffeeshop

English

Alternative forms

• coffee-shop, coffeeshop

Etymology

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

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

   He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends.

   • 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, archived from the original on 25 January 2025:

     Since the early 2010s, when the first wave of niche coffee shops opened in France, their number has risen 74 percent across the country to 3,500, with a new coffeehouse now opening every week, according to Collectif Café, a trade association. […] This morning stop is for good company, but for good caffeine, Ms. Bantman then picks up a €3 cortado or piccolo, to go, from her regular coffee shop before heading to the office. […] 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
• → Japanese: コーヒーショップ (kōhīshoppu)
• → Korean: 커피숍 (keopisyop)

Translations

café — see café

See also

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