Starbucks

//ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A widespread chain of coffee shops.

    "Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open every day somewhere on the globe."

  2. 2
    plural of Starbuck (surname) form-of, plural
Noun
  1. 1
    A coffee from Starbucks. countable, metonymically, uncountable

    "I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.

Etymology 2

From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.

Etymology 3

From Starbuck (surname) + -s. The chain of coffee shops is named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. Melville named the character in honor of the Starbuck family, a prominent whaling family based in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The surname itself derives from the community of Starbeck in North Yorkshire, England.

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