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Meaning 1
A widespread chain of coffee shops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Starbucks
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈstɑːˌbʌks/
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US: /ˈstɑːɹˌbʌks/
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CMU ARPABET: S T AA1 R B AH2 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
plural of Starbuck (a surname)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 3
A coffee from Starbucks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, metonymically, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Starbies
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سْتَارْبَكْس (stārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Armenian: Սթարբաքս (Stʻarbakʻs) — chain of coffee shops
- Belarusian: Ста́рбакс (Stárbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Bengali: স্টারবাক্স (sṭarbakśo) — chain of coffee shops
- Bulgarian: Ста́рбъкс (Stárbǎks) — chain of coffee shops
- Chinese Cantonese: 士打北 — chain of coffee shops
- Chinese Mandarin: 星巴克 (Xīngbākè) — chain of coffee shops
- Finnish: Starbucks — chain of coffee shops
- Georgian: სტარბაქსი (sṭarbaksi) — chain of coffee shops
- Greek: Σταρμπαξ (Starmpax) — chain of coffee shops
- Gujarati: સ્ટાર્બક્સ (sṭārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Hebrew: סטארבקס (starbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Hindi: स्टारबक्स (sṭārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Japanese: スターバックス (Sutābakkusu) — chain of coffee shops
- Japanese: スタバ (Sutaba) — chain of coffee shops
- Javanese: ꦱ꧀ꦛꦴꦂꦧꦏ꧀ꦱ꧀ (sthārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Kannada: ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಬಕ್ಸ್ (sṭārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Korean: 스타벅스 (Seutabeokseu) — chain of coffee shops
- Marathi: स्टार्बक्स (sṭārbaksa) — chain of coffee shops
- Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠩ ᠪᠠ ᠺᠧ (sing ba kē) — chain of coffee shops
- Persian: استارباکس (estârbâks) — chain of coffee shops
- Portuguese: Starbucks — chain of coffee shops
- Russian: Ста́рбакс (Stárbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Sinhalese: ස්ටාර්බක්ස් (sṭārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Sundanese: ᮞ᮪ᮒᮁᮘᮊ᮪ᮞ᮪ (starbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Tagalog: Starbucks — chain of coffee shops
- Telugu: స్టార్బక్స్ (sṭārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Thai: สตาร์บัคส์ (sà-dtaa-bák) — chain of coffee shops
- Ukrainian: Ста́рбакс (Stárbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Urdu: سٹاربکس (sṭārbaks) — chain of coffee shops
- Uyghur: ستارباكس (starbaks) — chain of coffee shops
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