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iced coffee

iced coffee

7 1.0
Cold coffee served with ice, often with milk or syrup
  • noun
  • /aɪst ˈkɔːfi/
translation icon : café helado
  • She ordered an iced coffee with almond milk and vanilla syrup.
  • drinking iced coffee
  • sipping an iced coffee
  • buy an iced coffee

We hold our coffee or iced coffee beverages.

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Examples

  • Can I get an iced coffee?

  • In the summer, I start my day with an iced coffee, and in the winter with a nice warm latte.

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  • It's not quite iced coffee at this point, but it's on its way.

  • I know you can make your own iced coffee but I just use this.

  • Give me an iced coffee.

  • I can drink iced coffee in the middle of winter, and I still love it.

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  • But I do love iced coffee.

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  • Then make yourself an iced coffee to celebrate.

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  • And then I grab my favorite summer drink right now, which is the iced coffee from Starbucks.

  • I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I do love a good, sweet iced coffee on a hot New England morning.

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Synonyms

ice coffee
vsiced coffee
1.0

Coffee that is served cold with ice, often with milk or cream

is milder and not necessarily sweetened
fraps
vsiced coffee
  • Slang
9.1

A cold blended coffee drink made with ice and milk

is unblended cold coffee served with solid cubes rather than slushy

Antonyms

19 1.0

A drink made from coffee beans served very hot

How Cold

iced coffee
7 1.0
hot coffee
19 1.0

Surface Forms

iced coffee singular
iced coffees plural

Morphology

iced + coffee

The meaning 'coffee served cold over ice' is directly derivable from combining 'iced' (cooled/served with ice) with 'coffee' — a straightforward adjective + noun composition. This is a regular, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.

Etymology

Iced coffee comes from the simple image of coffee poured over ice to make a 'cold' drink. So, the name literally says the coffee is iced, which is why it means 'coffee served cold over ice', often with milk, cream, or flavoring.