ice coffee
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- noun
- /aɪs ˈkɔːfi/
- I ordered an ice coffee with milk to enjoy on a hot summer day.
Examples
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She loves to sip her ice coffee while reading her favorite book on the porch.
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For a refreshing treat, try blending your ice coffee with vanilla ice cream.
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No hi welcome back to the ice coffee hour, not channel hour.
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Me: "Uh, a large ice coffee..."
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Synonyms
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Cold coffee served with ice, often with milk or syrup
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a coffee served over ice' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'ice' (frozen water) with 'coffee' (the beverage); the notion of a beverage containing ice is literal and compositionally obvious. Although the more common form is 'iced coffee', the noun–noun combination conveys the same literal idea and is cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand it.
Etymology
Ice coffee comes from the simple idea of pouring hot coffee over ice to make it 'cold'. That's why it means a cold coffee drink served over ice, often made sweet and with milk or cream.