instant coffee

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   dehydrated coffee that can be made into a drink by adding hot water

   “the advantages of instant coffee are speed of preparation and long shelf life”

   Broadercoffee

Questions about instant coffee

What does instant coffee mean?

instant coffee means "dehydrated coffee that can be made into a drink by adding hot water".

Is instant coffee a common word?

instant coffee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.