espresso

1. 1.

   strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans

   Broadercoffee

   Narrowercaffe latte

Other forms of espresso

plural

espressoes·

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.

Questions about espresso

What does espresso mean?

espresso means "strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans".

How many syllables are in espresso?

espresso has 3 syllables: es-pres-so. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ˌɛˈspɹɛsoʊ/.

Is espresso a common word?

espresso is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.