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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal Brewed coffee.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A breed of the domestic hen, originated in the United States. The javas are of good size and broad and deep shape, and rank well for utility. There are two varieties, the blacks, which have dark legs, and the mottled, the latter being evenly marked black and white, with legs also mottled. Both varieties have upright combs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
  2. n. US, colloquial Coffee in general.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.
  2. n. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java.
  3. n. (Computers) an object-oriented computer programming language, derived largely from C++, used widely for design and display of web pages on the world-wide web. It is an interpreted language, and has been suggested as a platform-independent code to allow execution of the same progam under multiple operating systems without recompiling. The language is still (1997) under active development, and is evolving.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
  2. n. an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
  3. n. a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans

Etymologies

  1. After Java 1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear I would have thought #2 is more suitable for that. I've heard people refer to coffee as "java." (Usually they're trying to be hip.)

    Edit: oh... did you mean #4? In that case I agree. Feb 27, 2009

  • bilby I think WordNet has done a fine job here. Although def 3 is possibly for that OddNet list/tag someone was talking about recently. Feb 27, 2009

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