coffeehouse

• coffee house, coffee-house

From coffee +‎ house.

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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.

   • 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 May 2012:

     In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.

   • 2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR‎^[2]:

     A stranger picked up the tab for the coffee order of the next customer in the drive-through line at a Tim Hortons coffeehouse in Winnipeg, Canada.

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coffeehouse (third-person singular simple present coffeehouses, present participle coffeehousing, simple past and past participle coffeehoused)

1. To distract a game player by chattering.