Java

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An island of Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
• An object-oriented, garbage-collected computer programming language.
• JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.

Noun

• A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Java EE, Java ME, Java SE

Origin

• Javanese ꦗꦮ, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप ("island of barley"), used in reference to 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.