What does "java" mean?
A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
Java
/ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
- Grammar: java is listed as name, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: coffee, brew, coding language, island of java.
- Usage evidence: This coffee is a blend of Java and Brazil.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
- 2 A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java. countable, uncountable
- 3 A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.
"The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street."
- 4 a platform-independent object-oriented programming language wordnet
- 5 Coffee in general. US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
"45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory."
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- 6 a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.
- 2 An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
- 3 JavaScript (by confusion with Java). proscribed
"In the input tag I include the onBlur="myfunction()" which checks if the field is filled (displays an alert if necessary and resets the focus). If I leave the first field I get an java alert which says that field two should have a value and then a java alert which says that field one should have a value and then a java... get the picture ?"
Synonyms
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"This coffee is a blend of Java and Brazil."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "java"?
Common synonyms include: coffee, brew, coding language, island of java, java island, javas.
How do you use "java" in a sentence?
This coffee is a blend of Java and Brazil.
How do you pronounce "java"?
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Etymology 2
From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.
Etymology 3
From French java.