coffee shop

noun

: a small restaurant

Examples of coffee shop in a Sentence

We bought a muffin at the hotel's coffee shop.
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What started as a simple coffee shop grew to become a restaurant and catering company with an outpost at Hartsfield-Jackson airport. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025 Noir is a quaint coffee shop where white walls are a canvas for paintings by a rotation of local artists. Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Inspectors gave the Sacramento coffee shop a yellow placard after watching an employee skip the sanitizer step when washing a tray of cups and forks. Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Their parents bought for a song in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, and are now welcoming the kids back to a Baumbachian fantasia of coffee shops and parks, Chipotles and Aesops, boutiques and enviable public schools. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coffee shop

Word History

First Known Use

1812, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of coffee shop was in 1812

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“Coffee shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffee%20shop. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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