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say it: KAH-fee
coffee is a noun meaning "a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans". It is pronounced /ˈkɑfi/ — KAH-fee. It carries 4 recorded senses.
any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
a medium brown to dark-brown color
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coffee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.