strong coffee
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- noun
- /strɔŋ ˈkɔfi/
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café fuerte
- I enjoy starting my day with a cup of strong coffee to wake me up.
- a cup of strong coffee
- a pot of strong coffee
- espresso or strong coffee
I start my morning with, have you ever heard of strong coffee?
- I start my morning with, have you ever heard of strong coffee?
- And yet we do still manage to get, you know, strong coffee and and I don't know, a protein bar.
Examples
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The whole house smells amazing with the concoction of warm spices and strong coffee.
Blog text (22) -
I'll make myself a cup of good strong coffee.
Fiction book (1999) -
I was raised on strong coffee.
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You want some strong coffee.
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Time for some very strong coffee.
Fiction book (2002) -
Did that strong coffee upset your stomach?
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Well, Lottie got me going with some strong coffee.
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Better makeyou some strong coffee.
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After she awoke, she sat down in her robe to the strong coffee he had ground and made for her.
Fiction book (1991) -
Doris wraps up tuna sandwiches and oatmeal cookies and pours a thermos of strong coffee for Herb.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A strong dark drink made by pushing hot water through ground coffee beans
Antonyms
How Strong
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'coffee with a strong, robust flavor' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'strong' (having an intense flavor/effect) with 'coffee' (the beverage). This simple adjective+noun descriptive pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard compositional rules, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
The compound strong coffee comes from the simple idea of 'strength' in taste: when coffee is made with more grounds or brewed longer it tastes more powerful, so people call it strong. That's why strong coffee means a cup with a rich taste and more caffeine to 'wake you up'.