Meaning of coffee shop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
2. A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
3. Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
   Malaysia, Singapore
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.

Equivalents

Examples

“He went to the nearby coffee shop⟳ with his friends.”

“"From behind the counter of this provincial train⟳ station coffee shop⟳, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink⟳ to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press⟳ [...].”

“Over time, the concern⟳ is that the cafe’s role as the heart of Parisian society will become⟳ obsolete, Mr. Fontaine said, as the younger generation turns to the coffee shop⟳.”

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