"Starbucks" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/ [UK], /ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks/ [US] Forms: Starbuckses [plural], Starbucks [plural]
Etymology: 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. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Starbuckses|Starbucks}} Starbucks (plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)
  1. A widespread chain of coffee shops. Categories (topical): Coffee Derived forms: 'Bucks, Starbies, Starbucksification Translations (chain of coffee shops): سْتَارْبَكْس (starbaks) [masculine] (Arabic), Սթարբաքս (Stʻarbakʻs) (Armenian), ᬲ᭄ᬝᬵᬃᬩᬓ᭄ᬲ᭄ (Balinese), Ста́рбакс (Stárbaks) [masculine] (Belarusian), স্টারবাক্স (sṭarbakśo) (Bengali), Ста́рбъкс (Stárbǎks) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 士打北 (Chinese Cantonese), 星巴克 (Xīngbākè) (Chinese Mandarin), Starbucks (Finnish), სტარბაქსი (sṭarbaksi) (Georgian), Σταρμπαξ (Starmpax) (Greek), સ્ટાર્બક્સ (sṭārbaks) (Gujarati), סטארבקס (starbaks) (Hebrew), स्टारबक्स (sṭārbaks) (Hindi), スターバックス (Sutābakkusu) (Japanese), スタバ (Sutaba) (Japanese), ꦱ꧀ꦛꦴꦂꦧꦏ꧀ꦱ꧀ (sthārbaks) (Javanese), ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಬಕ್ಸ್ (sṭārbaks) (Kannada), 스타벅스 (Seutabeokseu) (Korean), स्टार्बक्स (sṭārbaksa) (Marathi), ᠰᠢᠩ ᠪᠠ ᠺᠧ (siŋ ba kē) (Mongolian), استارباکس (estârbâks) (Persian), Starbucks [masculine] (Portuguese), Ста́рбакс (Stárbaks) [masculine] (Russian), ස්ටාර්බක්ස් (sṭārbaks) (Sinhalese), ᮞ᮪ᮒᮁᮘᮊ᮪ᮞ᮪ (starbaks) (Sundanese), Starbucks (Tagalog), స్టార్బక్స్ (sṭārbaks) (Telugu), สตาร์บัคส์ (sà-dtaa-bák) (Thai), Ста́рбакс (Stárbaks) [masculine] (Ukrainian), سٹاربکس (sṭārbaks) (Urdu), ستارباكس (starbaks) (Uyghur)
    Sense id: en-Starbucks-en-name-TQomPBbf Disambiguation of Coffee: 60 40 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 70 30

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/ [UK], /ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks/ [US] Forms: Starbuckses [plural], Starbucks [plural]
Etymology: 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. Head templates: {{en-noun|~|+|Starbucks}} Starbucks (countable and uncountable, plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)
  1. (metonymically) A coffee from Starbucks. Tags: countable, metonymically, uncountable Related terms: Tim Hortons, often claimed the Canadian equivalent of the chain
    Sense id: en-Starbucks-en-noun-EYLAJ~ur Categories (other): English metonyms

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "士打北"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Xīngbākè",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "星巴克"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "Starbucks"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sṭarbaksi",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "სტარბაქსი"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Starmpax",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "Σταρμπαξ"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "સ્ટાર્બક્સ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "starbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "סטארבקס"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "स्टारबक्स"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Sutābakkusu",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "スターバックス"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Sutaba",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "スタバ"
    },
    {
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "roman": "sthārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ꦱ꧀ꦛꦴꦂꦧꦏ꧀ꦱ꧀"
    },
    {
      "code": "kn",
      "lang": "Kannada",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಬಕ್ಸ್"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Seutabeokseu",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "스타벅스"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "sṭārbaksa",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "स्टार्बक्स"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "siŋ ba kē",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ᠰᠢᠩ ᠪᠠ ᠺᠧ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "estârbâks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "استارباکس"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Starbucks"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Stárbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ста́рбакс"
    },
    {
      "code": "si",
      "lang": "Sinhalese",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ස්ටාර්බක්ස්"
    },
    {
      "code": "si",
      "lang": "Sinhalese",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ස්ටාර්බක්ස්"
    },
    {
      "code": "su",
      "lang": "Sundanese",
      "roman": "starbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ᮞ᮪ᮒᮁᮘᮊ᮪ᮞ᮪"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "Starbucks"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "స్టార్బక్స్"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sà-dtaa-bák",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "สตาร์บัคส์"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Stárbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ста́рбакс"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "sṭārbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "سٹاربکس"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "starbaks",
      "sense": "chain of coffee shops",
      "word": "ستارباكس"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Herman Melville",
    "Moby-Dick",
    "Starbucks"
  ],
  "word": "Starbucks"
}

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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English indeclinable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Coffee"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Starbuckses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Starbucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "+",
        "3": "Starbucks"
      },
      "expansion": "Starbucks (countable and uncountable, plural Starbuckses or Starbucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Tim Hortons"
    },
    {
      "word": "often claimed the Canadian equivalent of the chain"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English metonyms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel, page 163",
          "text": "I swear, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have gone up my nose.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bryant Simon, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, University of California Press, page 56",
          "text": "One part-time sociologist made an even more damning indictment: “Calling yourself a coffee nerd while drinking Starbucks is like calling yourself a beer nerd while drinking Budweiser.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Timothy, “How My Life Changed”, in Kevin Leman, Have a New You by Friday: How to Accept Yourself, Boost Your Confidence & Change Your Life in 5 Days, Revell, page 73",
          "text": "I read it straight through while I drank three Starbucks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Valerie Goldsilk, Sins of Our Sisters, Whiskey Creek Press",
          "text": "“Good, have they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Karen Adkins, Gossip, Epistemology, and Power: Knowledge Underground, Palgrave Macmillan, page 239",
          "text": "US Weekly’s regular photographic feature, “Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” which features celebrities engaged in such mundanities as pumping their own gas or drinking Starbucks, is a direct visual demonstration of this condescending simulated intimacy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coffee from Starbucks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coffee",
          "coffee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(metonymically) A coffee from Starbucks."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "metonymically",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑːˌbʌks/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Herman Melville",
    "Moby-Dick",
    "Starbucks"
  ],
  "word": "Starbucks"
}

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