different between caf vs coffeehouse

English

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Noun

caf (plural cafs)

1. (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.

2. (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.
3. A caffeinated coffee.

Related terms

• (caffeinated coffee): decaf, half-caf

Translations

Anagrams

• ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac

Middle English

Noun

caf

1. Alternative form of chaf

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??f/

Adjective

c?f

1. quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
2. bold, brave

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove
  • Scots: caif, kaif

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?af/

Noun

caf (nominative plural cafs)

1. 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

1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• coffee house, coffee-house

Etymology

coffee +? house

Pronunciation

Noun

coffeehouse (plural coffeehouses)

1. An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.

   Synonym: coffee shop

   Hypernym: house

Translations

See also

• basket house
• coffee bar
• coffee shop