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  • proper noun An island of Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
  • proper noun computing An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
  • proper noun computing, proscribed JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.
  • noun A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.

Etymologies

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Possibly from Sanskrit  (yava-dvipa, "island of barley"). Used in reference to coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850.

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