any of a breed of domestic chicken developed in the U.S. from Asian stock, having black or mottled black plumage
☆ a kind of coffee grown on Java and nearby islands
☆ Slang any coffee
large island of Indonesia, southeast of Sumatra: 49,995 sq mi (129,487 sq km); pop. (with Madura) 107,581,000
See Java in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun Informal
Brewed coffee.
Origin:
Origin: After Java1
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An island of Indonesia separated from Borneo by the Java Sea, an arm of the western Pacific Ocean. Center of an early Hindu Javanese civilization, Java was converted to Islam before the arrival of the Europeans (mainly the Dutch) in the late 16th century.
A trademark used for a programming language designed to develop applications, especially ones for the Internet, that can operate on different platforms.