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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All this after Fern just wanted to renovate her boring bookseller life by starting over next to her orc pal Viv’s coffee shop! Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 But talking with Schrader at a coffee shop in the ANA InterContinental Hotel, the long-ago controversy, which kept the film from being released in Japan for four decades, seemed if not forgotten, forgiven. Mark Schilling, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025 Holiday lights are going up, calendars are filling fast and the scent of cinnamon seems to follow your nose from coffee shops to checkout lines. David Dickstein, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025 Mocha Point customers will notice some of the same flavors as other coffee shops, as well as some that are different. Kansas City Star, 28 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 4 Nov. 2025.

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