java

CEFRB2

/ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.

Examples

  • Java and Javascript are like India and Indonesia, they aren't the same thing.

  • No, you don't know Java. You know JavaSCRIPT.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. JavaScript (by confusion with Java).

  2. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.

  3. Coffee in general.

More examples

In context

  • This coffee is a blend of Java and Brazil.

  • The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking.

  • The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.