filter coffee

noun

Brewed coffee; made with water strained through a filter holding the coffee.

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Meanings

nounfilter coffee (uncountable)
  1. uncountableBrewed coffee; made with water strained through a filter holding the coffee.

    […]and ‘treat ourselves’ (we had somehow picked up our mothers’ vocabulary of post-war abstention) to a filter coffee, which we regarded as the last word in French cool.

    1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19
  2. Indiauncountableparticularly South IndiaIndian filter coffee; a stronger blend made with milk, chicory and coffee percolated through a metal filter and served in a cup with a small, bowl-like saucer for cooling.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
drip coffee

Translations

Finnish suodatinkahvi, filtterikahvi
  • suodatinkahvibrewed coffee
  • filtterikahvibrewed coffee
  • intialainen kahviIndian coffee
German Filterkaffee
  • Filterkaffeebrewed coffee
Icelandic uppáhellt kaffi
  • uppáhellt kaffibrewed coffee
Malay kopi tenggek
  • kopi tenggekbrewed coffee
Swedish bryggkaffe
  • bryggkaffebrewed coffee
Turkish filtre kahve, süzme kahve
  • filtre kahvebrewed coffee
  • süzme kahvebrewed coffee
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APA

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MLA

“filter coffee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/filter%20coffee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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