Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A restaurant where coffee and other refreshments are served, especially one where people gather for conversation, games, or musical entertainment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house of entertainment where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and sometimes with lodging; a café. Coffee-houses in Great Britain formerly held a position somewhat similar to that of the club-houses of the present day.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
establishment wherecoffee is served to clients; acafé .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
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Examples
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We had to go through what I call the coffeehouse period, where for a while we sort of said, "Let's just sit around with the troops and talk about stuff and let's be buddies."
My American Journey 1996
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Michael Sheehan, the deputy police commissioner in New York City responsible for counterterrorism until 2006, explained that hotheads in a coffeehouse are a dime a dozen.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Michael Sheehan, the deputy police commissioner in New York City responsible for counterterrorism until 2006, explained that hotheads in a coffeehouse are a dime a dozen.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Michael Sheehan, the deputy police commissioner in New York City responsible for counterterrorism until 2006, explained that hotheads in a coffeehouse are a dime a dozen.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Michael Sheehan, the deputy police commissioner in New York City responsible for counterterrorism until 2006, explained that hotheads in a coffeehouse are a dime a dozen.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The coffeehouse was a long, narrow place with exposed copper piping along the ceiling and a brick wall behind the counter.
At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010
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The coffeehouse has been a popular and frequented location for the past 15 years among tourists and neighborhood folk alike, but has recently undergone a vast rehab to showcase a locally and sustainably sourced design and functionality.
Starbucks Goes Green In SoHo PSFK 2010
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The coffeehouse was a long, narrow place with exposed copper piping along the ceiling and a brick wall behind the counter.
At First Sight CATHERINE HAPKA 2010
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The Viennese writer Stefan Zweig called the coffeehouse "the best school of everything new."
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~ No coffee -- For Jürgen Habermas, the coffeehouse is a place where bourgeois individuals can enter into relationships with one another without the restrictions of family, civil society, or the state.
Speedlinking 8/22/07 William Harryman 2007
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