In the first years that Coca-Cola was produced, it contained cocaine. In 1914, cocaine was classified as a narcotic, after which they used caffeine instead of cocaine in the production of Coca-Cola.
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Caffeine
//ˈkæfiːn//
Synonyms for "caffeine" (3 found)
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5 entriesused for
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87 translations across 74 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kafeinë noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Arabic
1 entries- كَافِيِين noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Armenian
1 entries- կոֆեին noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Asturian
1 entries- cafeína noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kofein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Belarusian
2 entries- кафеі́н noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- кафэі́н noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Bengali
1 entries- ক্যাফিন noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кофеи́н noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Burmese
1 entries- ကေဖိန်း noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Catalan
1 entries- cafeïna noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Chinese
1 entries- 咖啡因 noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 咖啡因 noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 咖啡因 noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- 咖啡鹼 /咖啡碱 noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Czech
1 entries- kofein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Danish
1 entries- koffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Dutch
1 entries- cafeïne noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Esperanto
1 entries- kafeino noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Estonian
1 entries- kofeiin noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Finnish
1 entries- kofeiini noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
French
1 entries- caféine noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Galician
1 entries- cafeína noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Georgian
1 entries- კოფეინი noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
German
2 entries- Coffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- Koffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Greek
1 entries- καφεΐνη noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 咖啡因 noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Hebrew
1 entries- קָפֶאִין noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Hindi
2 entries- कैफ़ीन noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- कैफीन noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Hungarian
1 entries- koffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Icelandic
2 entries- kaffín noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- koffín noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Ido
1 entries- kafeino noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Indonesian
1 entries- kafein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- کافِئین noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Irish
1 entries- caiféin noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Italian
1 entries- caffeina noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Japanese
1 entries- カフェイン noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Kazakh
1 entries- кофеин noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Khmer
1 entries- កាហ្វេអ៊ីន noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Korean
1 entries- 카페인 noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кофеин noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Lao
2 entries- ກາເຟອີນ noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- ຄາເຟອີນ noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Latin
1 entries- coffēinum noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Latvian
1 entries- kofeīns noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kofeinas noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Macedonian
1 entries- кофеи́н noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Malagasy
2 entries- kafeina noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- kafeinina noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Malay
1 entries- kafein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Manx
1 entries- caffeen noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Mongolian
1 entries- кофеин noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- koffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- koffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Polish
1 entries- kofeina noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Portuguese
1 entries- cafeína noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Romanian
2 entries- cafeină noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- cofeină noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Russian
1 entries- кофеи́н noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- caifein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kofèīn noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- кофѐӣн noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Slovak
1 entries- kofeín noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Slovene
1 entries- kofein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Spanish
1 entries- cafeína noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Swahili
1 entries- kafeini noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Swedish
1 entries- koffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Tajik
1 entries- кофеин noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Thai
2 entries- กาเฟอีน noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- คาเฟอีน noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Turkish
1 entries- kafein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Turkmen
2 entries- kafein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- kafeyin noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кофеї́н noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Urdu
1 entries- کَیفِین noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Uyghur
1 entries- كوففېئىن noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Uzbek
1 entries- kofein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Vietnamese
3 entries- caffein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- cafêin noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
- cà phê tinh noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Volapük
1 entries- kafein noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Welsh
1 entries- caffîn noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Yiddish
1 entries- קאַפֿעיִן noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Yoruba
1 entries- kaféènì noun (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Caffeine is a purinergic antagonist that competitively inhibits adenosine at the sites of P1 receptors.
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Masha prefers coffee without caffeine.
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Does Coca-Cola contain caffeine?
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