coffee

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
  2. noun any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
  3. noun a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.

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