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# costa

«costa» in Mova's school dictionary: **Costa Coffee, a big chain of coffee shops in the UK and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Costa; a name); noun (costa, costae — science, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Costa Coffee, a big chain of coffee shops in the UK and Ireland; people say «Let's go to Costa». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#m1)

2) (a place name) Part of names of coasts and countries: Costa Rica (a country in Central America), Costa del Sol and Costa Brava (holiday coasts in Spain). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#m2)

3) (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) «Costa» means «coast» in these languages; it is not an English common word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#m3)

4) (a name) A surname, as in the footballer Diego Costa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#m4)

5) (science, rare) A rib, or a rib-like ridge, for example the strong front vein of an insect's wing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

It is a short honest entry: in English texts it is almost always a name — of a coffee shop, a holiday coast or a country. In geography, Costa Rica is famous for rainforests, volcanoes and wildlife such as sloths and toucans. Phrases: «Costa Rica», «Costa del Sol», «Costa Coffee».

### examples

- Mum bought a hot chocolate for me at Costa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#x1)
- Costa Rica is home to sloths and toucans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#x2)
- We went on holiday to the Costa del Sol in Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#x3)
- «Costa» means coast in Spanish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#x4)
- The footballer Costa scored in the final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#x5)
- Costa Rica has no army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/#x6)

### note

Usually written with a capital C as a name. Said «KOSS-tuh». The science sense is rare; its plural is «costae». Do not confuse with «cost» (price).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «costa» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/costa/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.