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espresso

  • noun
  • es·pres·so
  • /ɛˈspɹɛsəʊ/

A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.

Other meanings

  1. A drink that includes espresso as an ingredient.

A kind of

  • coffee

Related words

  • espressoed
  • espresso-speak
  • espressotini
  • sexpresso

Example sentences

  • “I'm loving this espresso machine.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "exprimere".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “espresso” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.