different between cafeteria vs catering

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)

1. A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
2. 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)

1. cafe
2. cafeteria

Finnish

Noun

cafeteria

1. Alternative form of kafeteria.

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

cafeteria f (plural cafeterias)

1. cafeteria (type of restaurant)

Swedish

Noun

cafeteria c

1. cafeteria

Declension

Alternative forms

• kafeteria

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke?t(?)???/

Noun

catering (countable and uncountable, plural caterings)

1. (uncountable, Britain) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
2. (uncountable, US) The business of providing such services for special occasions.
3. (countable) The act of one who caters (to something).
   • 1864, J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos

     Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

Translations

Verb

catering

1. present participle of cater

Anagrams

• argentic, citrange, creating, creäting, reacting, reäcting

Finnish

Noun

catering

1. catering

Declension

Polish

Alternative forms

• katering

Etymology

From English catering.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?t?.r?ink/

Noun

catering m inan

1. catering

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) cateringowy

Further reading

• catering in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• catering in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From English catering.

Noun

catering m (uncountable)

1. catering

References

• Real Academia Espanola