Java Definition

jävə, jăvə
noun
Any of a breed of domestic chicken developed in the U.S. from Asian stock, having black or mottled black plumage.
Webster's New World
Coffee.
Webster's New World
A kind of coffee grown on Java and nearby islands.
Webster's New World
(US, colloquial) Coffee in general.
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A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.

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An island of Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.

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(computing) An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.

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(computing, proscribed) JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.

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Other Word Forms of Java

Noun

Singular:
java
Plural:
javas

Origin of Java

  • From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

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  • Possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”). Used in reference to coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850.

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  • After Java

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Java Sentence Examples

  • During the same year in which De Torres sailed through the strait destined to make him famous, a little Dutch vessel called the " Duyfken," or " Dove," set sail from Bantam, in Java, on a voyage of discovery.

  • In Java and other Dutch possessions in the East cotton is cultivated.

  • The two which drain the largest basin are the Chi Manuk and the Chi Tarum, both rising in the eastern end of the province and flowing northeast and north-west respectively to the Java Sea.

  • The oldest tradition they possess refers to a time shortly after the overthrow of the Majapahit dynasty in Java, about the middle of the 15th century; but it has been supposed that there must have been Indian settlers here before the middle of the 1st century, by whom the present name, probably cognate with the Sanskrit balin, strong, was in all likelihood imposed.

  • On the mountains of Java there appears to be no truly alpine flora; Saxifrage is not found.

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Words Starting With

JJAJAV

Words Ending With

AVAAVA

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With J and Ending With A

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With J4 Letter Words Ending With A