Dictionary
Thesaurus
Encyclopedia
Translator
Web
Related Searches
Nearby Words

mocha

 - 4 dictionary results

mo⋅cha

  [moh-kuh]
Use mocha in a Sentence
–noun
1. (initial capital letter) Also, Mukha. a seaport in the Republic of Yemen on the Red Sea. 25,000.
2. a choice variety of coffee, originally grown in Arabia.
3. a flavoring obtained from a coffee infusion or a combined infusion of chocolate and coffee.
4. a brownish chocolate color.
5. a glove leather, finer and thinner than doeskin, the best grades of which are made from Arabian goatskins.
Origin:
1765–75 for def. 2
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To mocha
mo·cha   (mō'kə)   
n.  

  1. A rich pungent Arabian coffee.

  2. Coffee of high quality.

  3. A coffee beverage flavored with milk, sugar, and cocoa.

  4. A flavoring made of coffee mixed with chocolate.

  5. A soft, thin, suede-finished glove leather usually made from sheepskin.

  6. A dark olive brown.


[After Mocha, a town of southwest Yemen.]
mo'cha adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Word Origin & History

mocha 
1733, from Mocha, Red Sea port of Yemen, from which coffee was exported. Meaning "mixture of coffee and chocolate" first recorded 1849. As a shade of dark brown, it is attested from 1895.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Encyclopedia

Mocha

town, southwestern Yemen, on the Red Sea and the Tihamah coastal plain. Yemen's most renowned historic port, it lies at the head of a shallow bay between two headlands, with an unprotected anchorage 1.5 miles (2.5 km) offshore. It was long famous as Arabia's chief coffee-exporting centre; the term mocha and variations of the word have entered European languages as a synonym for the high-quality coffee of the species Coffea arabica, still grown in the Yemen Highlands and formerly exported through the town.

Learn more about Mocha with a free trial on Britannica.com.

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Cite This Source
Search another word or see mocha on Thesaurus | Reference
FacebookTwitterFollow us:
Partner Sites:
Ask AnswersEviteExpediaHotelsHotwireLife123LiveDailyMy Way