black coffee

noun

Coffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.

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café noir
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Meanings

nounblack coffee (countable and uncountable, plural black coffees)

plural black coffees

  1. countableuncountableCoffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.

    It wasn't enough. They'd be able to rouse her with black coffee.

    1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, pages 305–306
    1 more example

    Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.

    2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36

    Synonyms: café noir

Synonyms & antonyms

nounCoffee served as a beverage without cream or milk.

Similar
café noir

Translations

Arabic قَهْوَة سَوْدَاء
  • قَهْوَة سَوْدَاء (qahwa sawdāʔ)coffee served without cream or milk
Bulgarian че́рно кафе́
  • че́рно кафе́ (čérno kafé)coffee served without cream or milk
Catalan cafè negre
  • cafè negrecoffee served without cream or milk
Chinese Cantonese 齋啡 /斋啡
  • 齋啡 /斋啡 (zaai¹ fe¹)coffee served without cream or milk
Chinese Mandarin 黑咖啡, 清咖啡
  • 黑咖啡 (hēikāfēi)coffee served without cream or milk
  • 清咖啡 (qīngkāfēi)coffee served without cream or milk
  • 清咖 (qīngkā)coffee served without cream or milk
Czech černá káva
  • černá kávacoffee served without cream or milk
Danish sort kaffe
  • sort kaffecoffee served without cream or milk
Dutch zwarte koffie
  • zwarte koffiecoffee served without cream or milk
Estonian must kohv
  • must kohvcoffee served without cream or milk
Finnish musta kahvi
  • musta kahvicoffee served without cream or milk
French café noir
  • café noircoffee served without cream or milk
German schwarzer Kaffee, Mokka
  • schwarzer Kaffeecoffee served without cream or milk
  • Mokkacoffee served without cream or milk
  • Café Crèmecoffee served without cream or milk
Greek μαύρος καφές, σκέτος καφές
  • μαύρος καφές (mávros kafés)coffee served without cream or milk
  • σκέτος καφές (skétos kafés)coffee served without cream or milk
Hebrew קפה שחור
  • קפה שחור (kafé shakhór)coffee served without cream or milk
Hindi काली कोफ़ी
  • काली कोफ़ी (kālī kofī)coffee served without cream or milk
Hungarian feketekávé
  • feketekávécoffee served without cream or milk
Indonesian kopi pahit
  • kopi pahitcoffee served without cream or milk
Italian caffè americano
  • caffè americanocoffee served without cream or milk
Japanese ブラックコーヒー, ブラック
  • ブラックコーヒー (burakku kōhī)coffee served without cream or milk
  • ブラック (burakku)coffee served without cream or milk
Korean 블랙 커피
  • 블랙 커피 (beullaek keopi)coffee served without cream or milk
Latvian melna kafija
  • melna kafijacoffee served without cream or milk
Lithuanian juoda kava
  • juoda kavacoffee served without cream or milk
Malay kopi o
  • kopi ocoffee served without cream or milk
Norwegian Bokmål svart kaffe
  • svart kaffecoffee served without cream or milk
Polish kawa czarna
  • kawa czarnacoffee served without cream or milk
Portuguese café puro, café preto
  • café purocoffee served without cream or milk
  • café pretocoffee served without cream or milk
Romanian cafea neagră
  • cafea neagrăcoffee served without cream or milk
Russian чёрный ко́фе
  • чёрный ко́фе (čórnyj kófe)coffee served without cream or milk
Slovak čierna káva
  • čierna kávacoffee served without cream or milk
Spanish café Express, café negro
  • café Expresscoffee served without cream or milk
  • café negrocoffee served without cream or milk
  • café solocoffee served without cream or milk
  • negritocoffee served without cream or milk
  • tintocoffee served without cream or milk
Swedish svart kaffe
  • svart kaffecoffee served without cream or milk
Tagalog kapeng itim
  • kapeng itimcoffee served without cream or milk
Tamil கடுங்காப்பி
  • கடுங்காப்பி (kaṭuṅkāppi)coffee served without cream or milk
Thai กาแฟดำ
  • กาแฟดำ (gaa-fɛɛ dam)coffee served without cream or milk
Turkish koyu kahve
  • koyu kahvecoffee served without cream or milk
Ukrainian чо́рна ка́ва
  • чо́рна ка́ва (čórna káva)coffee served without cream or milk
Urdu کالی کوفی
  • کالی کوفی (kālī kofī)coffee served without cream or milk
Vietnamese cà phê đen
  • cà phê đencoffee served without cream or milk
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