Mocha
//ˈmoʊkə// adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof. countable
- 2 a dark brown color wordnet
- 3 A flavour that combines coffee and chocolate. countable, uncountable
"mocha fudge"
- 4 a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia wordnet
- 5 A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate wordnet
- 7 A strong Arabian coffee. countable, uncountable
- 8 soft suede glove leather from goatskin wordnet
- 9 Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration. countable, uncountable
- 10 An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. countable, historical, uncountable
Adjective
- 1 Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee. not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 A village in Gujarat, India.
- 2 A village in Madhya Pradesh, India.
- 3 A city in Tungurahua Province, Ecuador.
- 4 A city in Taiz Governorate, Yemen.
- 5 A female given name.
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- 6 A surname.
- 7 The name originally proposed for JavaScript.
Example
More examples"I ordered a nonfat white mocha."
Etymology
From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule. The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.
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