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caf
English
Etymology
Clippings.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?f, IPA(key): /kæf/
- Rhymes: -æf
Noun
caf (plural cafs)
- (informal) A café.
- 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:
- Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.
- 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:
- (informal) A cafeteria.
- 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:
- There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.
- 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:
- Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.
- 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:
- A caffeinated coffee.
Related terms
- (caffeinated coffee): decaf, half-caf
Translations
Anagrams
- ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac
Middle English
Noun
caf
- Alternative form of chaf
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??f/
Adjective
c?f
- quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
- bold, brave
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove
- Scots: caif, kaif
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?af/
Noun
caf (nominative plural cafs)
- kettle
Declension
Welsh
Alternative forms
- ca (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) (standard) IPA(key): /ka?v/
- (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ka?/
- (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ka?v/
- (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ka?/
Verb
caf
- (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael
Mutation
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cafeteria
English
Alternative forms
- caféteria
- cafétéria (rare)
- cafeterie
Etymology
(Mid 19th or 20th century) American Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa, “coffee”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??i?
- Rhymes: -???i?
Noun
cafeteria (plural cafeterias)
- A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
- A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere
Synonyms
- lunchroom
- (dining area in an institution): canteen
Related terms
- caf
- café, cafe
- drugeteria
- washeteria
Translations
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /k?.f?.t???i.?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka.fe.te??i.a/
- Rhymes: -ia
Noun
cafeteria f (plural cafeteries)
- cafe
- cafeteria
Finnish
Noun
cafeteria
- Alternative form of kafeteria.
Declension
Portuguese
Noun
cafeteria f (plural cafeterias)
- cafeteria (type of restaurant)
Swedish
Noun
cafeteria c
- cafeteria
Declension
Alternative forms
- kafeteria
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